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gregg2:
@poster
In addition, Buhari is clueless, dump and not articulate.
I watched his interview and it was not inspiring at all for one aspiring for the highest office in the land.
GEJ is a lot better than him.

It's trueooooooo my brother. Besides, that man is old school.

The new edition of the best seller excerpts written by AUTHEBURCKLEY, expanded by ABDULMALIK LARRY KRAUS ZUBEIRU is out jus now, it has sold more than 1000000000000000000000000 copies, but for our teeming supporters of good conscience and some urchins (leftists) this copy is free of charge* no tax,

" added 31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

?17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?




If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.

Yes, Jarus should go!
He is too pro Buhari/Bakare and will delete pro GEJ posts.
A moderator should be unbiased.

Beaf too is not qualified either. He is too pro GEJ.
I suggest ehhhh . . . I'll be back.

“Let me tell you the truth by the spirit of God, neither Obasanjo, Atiku, IBB and this tall one Muhammadu Buhari are part of the new. They are part of the old that is decaying. That old one is passing away. The new is emerging and these ones are not part of the new.”
- Pastor Tunde Bakare in the Punch of Monday, October 2, 2006 Page 8

The question now is what is Bakare doing now with the old and decaying Buhari?

Thank you nairalanders for the updates.

GEJ is much more mature than Atiku. Infact, Atiku is a tout.

Is Adamu Ciroma no longer the leader of the north?
hehehehehehehe . . . I dey laugh

My guy, it matters.

@ELDERLAGON
Boy, stop your defence of illiteracy. Atiku talks and act like a tout. That is a sign of illiteracy. Stop referring us back to the days of your father or grandfather.
The trend around the world these days is that leaders of countries are well-educated.
President Barack Obama for instance is a University Professor.

'Diploma in Hygiene' is not enough for a person who desires to rule Nigeria in this 21st Century. This is not Shagari or Tafawa Balewa's time.

Atiku actually behave like a motor-park tout.
He should go back to school.

My choice

Hmmmmm . . . All these hausa illiterates.

But, Atiku has tried with a 'diploma in hygiene', lol
Afterall, Shehu Shagari and Tafawa Balewa were primary school teachers.

@Gregg2
That advert is right anyway. His highest educational qualification is a diploma he obtained from School of hygiene Kano between 1966–1967. Here is what I got from Wikipedia about his educational background.

1) Jada Primary School, 1954–1960,

2) Adamawa Provinciall School, Yola, 1961 to 1965,
with A'Level studies in Hausa Language,

3) School of hygiene Kano, 1966–1967, graduating with Health Diploma in Hygiene,

The man is actually empty as stated in that advert. He was just fortunate to work with the Nigerian Customs Service and amazed wealth to himself.

That is a hard one from GEJ.
Atiku want's to be President at all cost.
He is not not even loyal to the PDP - keeps
jumping from one party to the other. The biggest mistake is for
PDP to trust Atiku with a Presidential ticket.

@Boboribo

Boboribo:
What does he mean by being loyal to his wife? Wont he have more wives if he were a Muslim?

Atiku divorced one of his wives and sleeps around.

Boboribo:
His children school in Nigeria because up until recently he was a nobody. Are all his accusations crimes?

Come, you called a former director with OMPADEC, a former commissioner, former deputy governor, former governor, former vice president and now a sitting president a 'nobody'?

Boboribo:
Yar Adua is the only to tell us whether GEJ was loyal or not. Sadly he is no more and you think you have said anything?

You don't need late Yar'Adua to tell you that. It was obvious.

I found this question on the President's Facebook page.

I want your voice to be heard. Tell me what you think is the biggest issue of concern to you in Nigeria today. GEJ
1. North/South dichotomy
2. Corruption
3. Power
4. Insecurity
5. Over dependence on oil
6. Ethnic/Religious tensions/Indigene/Settler dichotomy
7. Some other problem. Please elaborate in the comment space below.


Hmmm . . . still racking my head for an answer.

Atiku is Ciroma's candidate, not north. Gbam!

Happy birthday Presido. May you live long.

@semid4lyfe
Thanks man, good analysis.

@Poster
Yes, it's worth it.

@Poster
Yes it's worth it

GEJ will make a mark.

Fashola Commissions Transformer Manufacturing Company
Urges FG to review tariff rate on transformer components

Oct 19, 2010 - Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday commissioned the first transformer manufacturing industry in West Africa, pleading with the Federal Government to consider a downward review of the tariff charged on the imported components used in the manufacture of transformers.

@Poster
Lie. It's not the first transformer manufacturing company in Nigeria.
I used to know and even do business with one at Calabar Free Trade Zone.

@Poster
Yes, in brothels . . . even, you pay daily.

homerac7:
@ Beaf

Well even with d imported version u quoted, its still a neutral statement. He is a PDP state party chairman, mind u. His statement is nothing beyond a casual remark to address supporters WITHIN his party.

He's not neutral.
Apart from eulogising GEJ on the HYPPADEC bill thing, he went further to . . . read more


“A word is enough for the wise. I will advise my delegates to choose between continuity and starting afresh. Niger State will be fair.”

The Niger State PDP Chairman said northerners had been indebted to the South-South zone since the creation of the Northern Peoples Congress before independence.

According to him, it was the support of the Niger Delta that made it possible for the defunct NPC to garner majority votes that made it to produce Alhaji Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as the nation’s first prime minister.

Tafida, who had earlier paid a courtesy visit to the Acting Governor of the state, Alhaji Ahmed Ibeto, also recalled that the Niger Delta supported the emergence of Alhaji Shehu Shagari as the president of Nigeria in 1979.

He said, “During the Northern Peoples Congress day, the North could not form a comfortable majority in the South. It was the same Niger Delta region that came together to form a party to join a northern coalition and form the Federal Government.

“Again, during the NPN era in the Second Republic, the party had only one-third of the total number of members of the National Assembly. It was from the same zone that we were able to get more members to come together.

“In actual sense, they have been with us long before we ever thought they would look for anything from us. So we thought that we from the North, the home of fairness, should support the president. We are the ones indebted to them and it is only fair for us to pay our debt.”

He insisted that since Jonathan found his way to the presidency through divine intervention, it was only just, equitable and fair for Nigerians to support him. He said the campaign organisation had visited Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Katsina, Kano and Kaduna states with the message of fairness and equity, arguing that Jonathan’s mandate should be supported.

Ibeto said the state would support any aspirant that would assure Nigerians of free education, good roads and sustainable power.

SSS arrests suspected Abuja Oct 1 bomber

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Yusuf Alli and Sanni Ologun, Abuja 19/10/2010 00:40:00
image Okah gets his hands set for the handcuffs before leaving the Johannesburg court

A BREAKTHROUGH has been recorded in the investigation into the Independence Day explosions in Abuja, with the arrest Monday of a suspect believed to have set off the bombs.

The State Security Service (SSS), it was gathered, picked up the suspect in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The suspect was flown to Abuja amid tight security around 1.00pm Monday.

It was also gathered that the United States’ Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined Nigerian security agencies to track fleeing suspects, but it was not known whether the FBI played any part in the arrest of the suspect in Port Harcourt.

Before Monday, the SSS had arrested nine persons. The Police said they arrested one person and declared two others wanted.

Those declared wanted by the police are Chima Orlu and Ben Jessy. They are still at large.

A highly-placed security source described yesterday’s arrest in Port Harcourt as “a breakthrough”.

“With the arrest of one of the suspects who triggered the explosions, we are finally closing in on those behind the dastardly act,” he said.

Responding to a question, the source added: “As a matter of fact, some of the suspects in detention gave clues which led to the arrest.

“Those in custody identified him as one of the bombers. The quizzing of the suspect will provide further insight into how the bombing was hatched and executed.

“There is no doubt that we are making headway and those connected with the explosions will soon be brought to justice.”

But the identities of all the 11 suspects so far arrested remain unknown.

Another source said: “We are yet to unveil their identities for security reasons. We are suspecting that a syndicate might have carried out the explosions. We do not want those yet to be arrested to escape.

“You need to appreciate that in this kind of investigation, we have no choice but to adopt a covert approach.”

It was not immediately clear when the trial of the remaining seven of the 11 suspects in SSS custody will begin.

Four of the suspects were arraigned on October 8 before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Zone 6 in Abuja.

They were ordered to be remanded in the custody of the SSS, pending the conclusion of investigations and commencement of their trial.

They are standing trial before Chief Magistrate Oyeyiola Oyewumi for alleged involvement and complicity in the bomb explosions on October 1.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, Henry Okah, one-time leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), is standing trial for alleged terrorism also in connection with the Abuja explosions.

A source dismissed the alleged rivalry between the SSS and the police over the investigation into the explosions.

The source said Nigeria had to rely on foreign expertise because of their superior equipment in such investigations.

“They have the equipment. Instead of drafting 500 men, two men can do a job with the right equipment. Policing is not about the number of men but about the equipment.”

Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said investigations were going on well.

“Nobody wants the issue to die. Those Nigerians who were killed in the process will get justice. We are doing a lot to get to the root of it,” Ojukwu said.

SSS arrests suspected Abuja Oct 1 bomber

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Yusuf Alli and Sanni Ologun, Abuja 19/10/2010 00:40:00
image Okah gets his hands set for the handcuffs before leaving the Johannesburg court

A BREAKTHROUGH has been recorded in the investigation into the Independence Day explosions in Abuja, with the arrest Monday of a suspect believed to have set off the bombs.

The State Security Service (SSS), it was gathered, picked up the suspect in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The suspect was flown to Abuja amid tight security around 1.00pm Monday.

It was also gathered that the United States’ Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined Nigerian security agencies to track fleeing suspects, but it was not known whether the FBI played any part in the arrest of the suspect in Port Harcourt.

Before Monday, the SSS had arrested nine persons. The Police said they arrested one person and declared two others wanted.

Those declared wanted by the police are Chima Orlu and Ben Jessy. They are still at large.

A highly-placed security source described yesterday’s arrest in Port Harcourt as “a breakthrough”.

“With the arrest of one of the suspects who triggered the explosions, we are finally closing in on those behind the dastardly act,” he said.

Responding to a question, the source added: “As a matter of fact, some of the suspects in detention gave clues which led to the arrest.

“Those in custody identified him as one of the bombers. The quizzing of the suspect will provide further insight into how the bombing was hatched and executed.

“There is no doubt that we are making headway and those connected with the explosions will soon be brought to justice.”

But the identities of all the 11 suspects so far arrested remain unknown.

Another source said: “We are yet to unveil their identities for security reasons. We are suspecting that a syndicate might have carried out the explosions. We do not want those yet to be arrested to escape.

“You need to appreciate that in this kind of investigation, we have no choice but to adopt a covert approach.”

It was not immediately clear when the trial of the remaining seven of the 11 suspects in SSS custody will begin.

Four of the suspects were arraigned on October 8 before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Zone 6 in Abuja.

They were ordered to be remanded in the custody of the SSS, pending the conclusion of investigations and commencement of their trial.

They are standing trial before Chief Magistrate Oyeyiola Oyewumi for alleged involvement and complicity in the bomb explosions on October 1.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, Henry Okah, one-time leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), is standing trial for alleged terrorism also in connection with the Abuja explosions.

A source dismissed the alleged rivalry between the SSS and the police over the investigation into the explosions.

The source said Nigeria had to rely on foreign expertise because of their superior equipment in such investigations.

“They have the equipment. Instead of drafting 500 men, two men can do a job with the right equipment. Policing is not about the number of men but about the equipment.”

Police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said investigations were going on well.

“Nobody wants the issue to die. Those Nigerians who were killed in the process will get justice. We are doing a lot to get to the root of it,” Ojukwu said.

There is hope. BAGCO is a subsidiary of Flour Mills of Nig Plc (Golden Penny)
Your pay will increase after the Mgt Trainee thing.
However, this should not stop you from applying to Shell or whatever

Harfox:
Whats Lagos doing in the less peaceful list?
Pls u need to give me a good reason why u think LAGOS is LESS PEACEFULL.

Disorderliness


Besides, me thinks Cross River
is the most peaceful state in Nigeria.
Anambra should be in the top 10 less
peaceful states because of Armed robbery activities.

Excellent! Should be moved to home page.

Ciroma, IBB, Dokpesi, Atiku . . . name them
are all fighting for their pockets using zoning & north.

The only manifesto IBB & Atiku have is zoning.
The truth cannot be hidden. They will be exposed
one after the other.

@ferari90
You no longer sleep. Your duty now is to
create anti-GEJ threads all over nairaland.
You and your master are loosers.

Northern leaders on Saturday warned members of the Northern Political Forum led by a former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, to desist from making inflammatory statement over the October 1 bombings in Abuja.

The leaders, under the aegis of Northern Political Summit otherwise known as G20, unambiguously condemned the call by Ciroma and his group on President Goodluck Jonathan to resign or be impeached over the Abuja bomb blast.

It will be recalled that Ciroma had stated in a press release on Tuesday that if the President failed to resign before the end of this week, the National Assembly should commence impeachment proceeding against him.

But the northern leaders said the statement credited to Ciroma was not a collective decision of the region, adding that the likes of the former minister should desist from undermining the unity of the country with his provocative and disruptive comments on national issues.

The group also called on the security agencies not to spare provocateurs and those that would want to undermine the nation‘s security with their unpatriotic actions.

The secretary of the group, Alhaji Buahri Bala, stated these in a press statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja.

Members of the group are Chief Soloman Lar, Amb. Hassan Adamu, Amb. Shehu Malami, Prof. Jerry Gana, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, Chief Barnabas Gemade, Sen. Ibrahim Ida, Sen. Bala Mohammed, Prince Abubakar Audu, Dr. Rabiu Kwankaso, Malam Maina Waziri, Engr. Mohammed Abba Gana, Boni Haruna.

Others include Prof. Saad Abubakar, Col. Bala Mande (retd.), Mrs. Magaret Icheen, Chief Mrs. Salome Jakanda, Dr. Christie Silas, Maj. Gen Zamani Lekwot (retd.), Paul Unongo, Alh, Ali Umar and Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN) among several others.

The group said, “Given the serious nature of these tragic events, we denounce, in strong terms, attempts being made by some political leaders to politicize this matter.

“Surely it is far better to work together to move Nigeria away from the quicksand of ethnic and regional politics to the solid rock of national integration based on justice, social harmony and national security.

“People should not attempt to get anything or seek redress illegally or from outside of due process because in a democracy, it is through the ballot that people got elected and not through undemocratic process of incitements, dubious means and unfounded impeachment threats.

“In a country that is striving to fully democratize and insisting on one man one vote, such dubious means should not be allowed.”

On the 2011 general election, the group urged the National Assembly and the Independent National Electoral Commission to promptly resolve any outstanding issues about the programme for the elections.

Meanwhile, a group loyal to the presidency, Congress for Equality and Change, on Friday night, advised the security agencies to arrest Ciroma.

The organisation described Ciroma‘s outburst as clear evidence of plans to destabilise the polity and preempt the results of the 2011 election.

The Chairman of the group, Senator Ameh Ebute, who said this at a press briefing in Abuja, regretted that Mallam Ciroma, who was unable to curtail activities of Boko Haram in his domain, was spearheading the call for the resignation of the President to cause chaos.

Ameh, a Senator in the aborted Third Republic said, “Threatening Mr. President to resign within seven days or be impeached is to say the least clearly a treasonable felony.”

The Congress advised Nigerians, irrespective of their ethnic, religious and political inclinations, to support the president‘s efforts in fighting terrorism, kidnapping and other social vices.