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Politicians are prostitutes, they romance whoever is with what they want at that particular time.
Poor Atiku is the best example of how to be a political prostitute.
Every four years he changed his political party.
It's unfortunate for pdp to have picked him up as their presidential candidate.

Stanleyville:
Your response is needed. These are undeniable facts.
You don't have to display your blindness to true story.




















Yo a fool!.. Simple.

Don't you think we should be able to say things as they are.
Must we always be telling lies?

HAFSAT ABIOLA REPLIES PDP AND NIGERIAN LOOTERS: IT'S ONLY A LAZY NIGERIAN THAT CANNOT READ THIS TO THE END.

GOES BALLISTIC !

I will only respond because my Sister Mo Demie asked for my view...

Please nobody should abuse my late father here o, I didn't come to your page to comment: All this sudden noise and write up to show that "Buhari was playing politics"......

When did it become a crime for politicians to play politics?
Were they not voted in to play politics?
Will it be wrong to develop our roads, infrastructure, free education, return oil blocks to the State instead of individuals?
What is this noise all about?
Jonathan was voted for by the South West in 2011, the same SW voted for Buhari in 2015, what is all this noise all about the SW going for Buhari?
Obasanjo, the direct beneficiary of #June12 is from the same State with MKO, why didn't he play politics and declare June 12?

Jonathan had opportunity for 5 years to do same, he rather gave Abacha from the North posthumous honor, pardoned Ex-convict from the West, Alams from the South...
What do you call that?
Is that politics or chemistry?
16 years opportunity to acknowledge #June12 they refused to use the #PoliticalUndertone...

So are you expecting Buhari to use Biological or Chemical undertone to take such decision?

Why are you guys fixated about those supporting Buhari, is it not a choice and must you dictate to others?
You brought up religious sentiments prio to 2015 election, yet blamed Buhari fr being the religious bigot....

Jonathan was running from one Church to another, Sambo openly told them in the North that they must not vote for Buhari because Osinbajo is a Pastor of a big Church....Who is a religious bigot here?

I mean, who was running from one religious organisation to another in 2015 because of politics? Pastor Bosun came up with that sudden apostasy, wrapped up Jonathan PDP politics in the name of "wake up call" message.

I'm happy that I'm still here. I asked him when most of you were analyzing that heretic message that "Jonathan is fulfilling prophecy".....

I asked a simple question: "Which prophecy is Jonathan"? Pastor Bosun went ahead to say "even if the Islamic party (APC) presents a Christian Governor in Lagos, you must not vote for him, you must vote for the other party(PDP)...... Wait, who was using religion?

Obasanjo removed Senate Presidents at will, removed any opposing voice, removed Fayose for a small insult, removed Ladoja with thugs in Ibadan....Who are you calling "DICTATOR"? Muhammadu Buhari.........

Obasanjo withheld Lagos State fund for 3 years, not minding how Lagosians would eat, Yaradua got there and released the fund...

NASS members were abusing Buhari openly, messing up everything at will, Fayose has been abusing Buhari for 4 years now.....

Not a single State in Nigeria has been denied their constitutional rights because of politics till date, all their funds, Paris fund, bail out, FAAC etc... But who is the DICTATOR? BUHARI.

Jonathan ensured that NASS opposition members were locked out including Tambuwa the Speaker of the house. They had to climb gate to gain access.....

Jonathan empowered OPCs in Lagos and they were destroying anything in Ikorodu to Ojota that looked like opposition party. Orga of DSS was used to invade APC secretariat, Journalist arrested and Newspapers siezed, we forgot all these....

Ekiti was militarised, Fayose was given power from Aso rock to order Military guys at will. Fayemi the incumbent at that moment was rendered powerless that he was shouting when Police commissioner was used by PDP and a guy was shot...All these videos and pictures are still here (google is your friend)...

But who is the dictator? BUHARI. Jonatahn met FX+ECA at $62 billion+. He DEPLETED it to less than $30 Billion in 5 years Jonathan sold crude oil for 5 years at an average of $100 per barrel of 2.2 million daily (2010-2014). Did he add a DIME to Nigeria purse in 5 years? NO.

Buhari the ILLITERATE sold oil at an average of $50 of less than 700,000 barrel at some points because of militancy, yet had moved that FX to $47 Billion in 3 years. Don't say how much did he borrow if you don't even have the figure borrowed between 2010-2015 without adding a dime to FX. Who is the ILLITERATE? BUHARIIII.

Jide Omokore, Aluko and oil goddess Alinson made an oil deal of N1 trillion and chose not to remit to Nigeria under GEJ. Did anyone raise eyebrow? INTEL of Atiku refused to remit to NPA, not until last year that "ordinary" Hadiza the NPA boss challenged INTEL and insisted the funds must be remitted.

A Christian Professor had been leading JAMB all through Obasanjo to Jonathan yet for 40 years of JAMB, only N52 Million was remitted to FG....A Muslim Professor who was appointed just in two years of handling JAMB remitted over N15 Billion......FIFTEEN BILLION ooO....

So who is following after righteousness? For five years of Okonjo Iweala was paying over 45,000 ghost workers unabated, yet just within 3 years, "ordinary" Kemi Adeosun removed such nonsense...I ask again who is more effective? Ordinary Abuja metro lane took 11 years from OBJ period that he INIT

Stop dividing us over religion, who is fooling who? Let's wake up.!
Good night.

We have to wait for police to confirm their responsibilities for Dino movements.
It could be from Dino's camp. Dino is capable of anything.
For those who are calling police names on this Dino deal, it's unfortunate that we always read political meaning to everything that happened around elections period.
A distinguished senator has been invited by his own State police command, and he feels not safe to honour the invitation.
For 5 months running, Dino could not arrange to meet with kogi state police command.
Now, police is taking action and we are making gest around.
Dino will not die, Dino will not suffer unjustly and Dino only need to be mature enough.

Take it or leave it! We are all going to witness how the game will play out.
Definitely, these politicians are same. However, the name pdp is synonymous with greed, corruption and failure.
To make it worse for pdp, they have Atiku who happens to be the most amazing political prostitute their presidential candidate.
It's a bad market for Bukola and all the marketers who are selling Atiku.

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Why Buhari Second Term Is Much Needed. by gotnel: 10:44am
We are getting closer to the 2019 presidential election. The contest look to narrow to only two presidential candidates.
Yes, we have many Nigerians contestants for the post of the president and commander in chief of arm forces of the federal republic of Nigeria, the raise is between Atiku Abubakar and Muhamodu Buhari.
If the promoters of the third force have been able to make good their promises to sponsor a very formidable political party and got ahead to present a politician that is totally different from the old order politicians, it would have been better for Nigerians.
In the absence of a third force, the battle is between APC & PDP.

Buhari government is a government that people are condemning because of lack of understanding of how much we have gone on the road of deception.
Buhari government is a government that is putting Nigeria back to solidify economic growth.
Thou, the speed of the economy is going very much slower than expected, but it is much better than the type of national prosperity we were promoting before.

Before, We were running economic that promotes growth of another nations while ours is being glorified on paper by international rating agencies. .

When we were been ratted as the biggest economy in Africa, what was our products and services that we enjoy locally, not to talk of exported out?
Everything we needs, including food and drinks are produced by another country. Which makes them more richer and productive.
Nigeria businessmen will only get a loan from the bank, goes to U S, Dubai, China, Turkey and any other productive country to buy the goods to sell.
Nothing to add than to warehouse the goods.
These are what the PDP call prosperous economy.
The international rating agencies are very much happy with Nigeria going to buy goods from another country because it promotes the industrial interest of those nations and all these rating agencies are owned by the same sets of industrial nations.
Under the present government, things are gradually changing.
At least, we are now looking inward for our food production.
Our infrastructures are better attended to.
Corruption is reducing, we all know that money is scarce in circulation because free money is not available as it used to be.
Farmers are getting richer than before. Go to rural area and confirm.
Industrial production is taking off gradually.
We are moving to regain all lost jobs in a more secure and productive way. Unlike the rent seeking type of job we have before.
Security challenges are better tackles under this government than PDP.
The security challenges have been there for too long. It has been allowed to fester under pdp government that it will take a persistent fight for five to Six years to douse down.
We need a continuous improvement on all fronts as we are going slowly.
A vote for PDP is a total reverse of all the slow achievement we are making.

Afi owo Abu se Abu lalejo. All for the sake of elections.

We are getting closer to the 2019 presidential election. The contest look to narrow to only two presidential candidates.
Yes, we have many Nigerians contestants for the post of the president and commander in chief of arm forces of the federal republic of Nigeria, the raise is between Atiku Abubakar and Muhamodu Buhari.
If the promoters of the third force have been able to make good their promises to sponsor a very formidable political party and got ahead to present a politician that is totally different from the old order politicians, it would have been better for Nigerians.
In the absence of a third force, the battle is between APC & PDP.

Buhari government is a government that people are condemning because of lack of understanding of how much we have gone on the road of deception.
Buhari government is a government that is putting Nigeria back to solidify economic growth.
Thou, the speed of the economy is going very much slower than expected, but it is much better than the type of national prosperity we were promoting before.

Before, We were running economic that promotes growth of another nations while ours is being glorified on paper by international rating agencies. .

When we were been ratted as the biggest economy in Africa, what was our products and services that we enjoy locally, not to talk of exported out?
Everything we needs, including food and drinks are produced by another country. Which makes them more richer and productive.
Nigeria businessmen will only get a loan from the bank, goes to U S, Dubai, China, Turkey and any other productive country to buy the goods to sell.
Nothing to add than to warehouse the goods.
These are what the PDP call prosperous economy.
The international rating agencies are very much happy with Nigeria going to buy goods from another country because it promotes the industrial interest of those nations and all these rating agencies are owned by the same sets of industrial nations.
Under the present government, things are gradually changing.
At least, we are now looking inward for our food production.
Our infrastructures are better attended to.
Corruption is reducing, we all know that money is scarce in circulation because free money is not available as it used to be.
Farmers are getting richer than before. Go to rural area and confirm.
Industrial production is taking off gradually.
We are moving to regain all lost jobs in a more secure and productive way. Unlike the rent seeking type of job we have before.
Security challenges are better tackles under this government than PDP.
The security challenges have been there for too long. It has been allowed to fester under pdp government that it will take a persistent fight for five to Six years to douse down.
We need a continuous improvement on all fronts as we are going slowly.
A vote for PDP is a total reverse of all the slow achievement we are making.

In this campaign season, where PDP is oiling her propaganda machine with all sorts of anything, it only takes a good audiologist some few tapes here and there, cut off and add on.
Join whatever is going to do the intended damages and do a proper editing.
Release it to the public.
Let the people take it from there and do the rest.
The aim for the job is achieved.

Igboblog:
So it's actually Rev. Father that dedicated this child.

Chei

Who is the father of child? How can you accept to dedicate a child of a baby mama.

Smh

The baby is a precious gift from God.
There is nothing wrong in a Rev. Father dedicating a baby, no matter how the baby was conceived.
We should stop discriminating against a lady that have the courage to carry pregnant to term of delivery, and the baby and mother are living .
Who are we to judge.

OTOGE.. This is not anywhere near violent in meaning.
To say enough is enough is not calling for fighting in any way.
People of kwara state are to decide if it's enough or they will want more from one man who plays godfather differently from the other godfathers in Nigeria political landscape.
Show me another godfather like Saraki who determined everything in government of Fatai while the governor is render useless.
Commissioners deffers to Saraki to take orders instead of being submissive to the sitting governor.
Please, let us allow kwarans to determine whether it's enough or they want the show to continue.

Never use crowd in a political rally to judge how popular that political party is.
Let us face issues and leave the numbers of people that attended a rally.

An excellent article by Dr. Iyabo Obasanjo published on her blog.

I am a terminal optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness, that is why three years ago, I would not have believed a bag of rice could be sold for the national minimum wage. With 87million extremely poor people and 13million children out of school in 2018, the mighty has indeed fallen and change has come. Now I know ‘all things’ are possible in a country ruled by incompetent ‘saints’. We have mass starvation in the North East, yet a clan of ‘Grass cutters’ are making their billions and smiling to the bank with the blood of hungry, homeless children, and internally displaced people in their hands. We hear rumors of ‘Bama Initiatives’ yet the fraternity in power manufactures internal solutions and our conniving cabinet of ‘saints’ watch in silence. They seek another term for their inaction, they call out the nation to pray for God to bless their cluelessness while we wait forever, for just anyone to answer the ‘grass cutter’s’ question; ‘who is the presidency?’

There are few things as nauseating as watching your favorite dog lick up its vomit. That is how sick this government of clowns make me feel. For three years Nigerians have been immersed in a disgusting circus show; the high point of our week is the next ‘tall tale’ from the spin doctor; Mr. Lie Mohammed. The man has shown great dexterity in fabricating bogus stories and making excuses for the pathetic ineptitude of our government. From his bedtime fairy tales about our ‘hale and hearty’ president waiting in the UK for 50days to have the Presidential jet serviced, to the one that won the tales by moonlight award of the year; the story of the ‘Great Rodents of Aso rock’. Governance by propaganda and lies has been institutionalized by ‘saints’. That is how we became a nation addicted to tall tales, a place where the rest of the world can look to, for comic relief. Every new day we shake our heads or bite our nails, and wonder why ‘our dear leader’ and his team are taking us for fools.

Three years crawl like eternity, every day with its pangs, and our people beg God to take us back to 2015. Just three years ago in January 2015, President Jonathan reduced the price of fuel from N97 to N86.5 per litre. Babatunde Fashola; Buhari’s super minister, responded by saying the price was not low enough. He promised the nation a better deal under the APC government of ‘saints’. He bragged that a ‘serious’ government would solve the power problem of the country in six months. Today, he is the Power, Works and Housing Minister and his silence is as deafening as it is shameful. Corruption in the power sector under the nostrils of our ‘saint’ stinks to the high heavens as ordinary citizens groan under the burden of ‘estimated bills’ and other sundry deceits.

Tam David West, a military era ally of General Buhari went further to promise his friend will bring the pump price of petrol down to N40 per litre. Then the price of crude came tumbling down to the ground, making the pump price of N40 per liter even more feasible but our government of ‘victims’ doubled the pump price of petrol. They went ahead and increased the price of Diesel by 400% without a reason, crushing the productive sector of the economy where everyone uses diesel to generate their electricity. We are told to blame Jonathan for three years of ineptitude, mediocrity and unbridled nepotism. We thank our God who in his faithfulness has given Professor Tam David West long life to watch ‘crocodile smile, python dance’ and to eat his empty words.

Did our President really promise to make the naira equal to the dollar at the APC South East rally at Owerri in 2015? Some think he did, but we will never know. To comment further may be labelled ‘hate speech’. We hear rumors of the possible reincarnation of decree 2, 4 of 1984. Those who are old enough will understand. The silence of our usually vibrant ‘yoruba’ media speak volumes for their independence and the state of our democratic evolution. I am however sure our ‘saints’ promised to create 740,000 new jobs in one year. They promised to revamp the coal industry in Enugu. They promised change and changed everything. Since then the National office of Statistics reported job losses of 1.5million in the first quarter of 2016. Now they say we are crawling out of recession but in the words of Bob Marley, ‘he who feels it, knows it’.

Nigeria; the famed land of ‘Hailers, Wailers and Lazy Youths’ has never had it so bad, yet apologists of this administration of ‘saints’ will hastily tell you to continue to believe, to celebrate the ‘incorruptibility of our pious ‘dear leader’ and his ‘lopsided’ war against corruption, to jump on the broomstick and believe their voodoo economics. I have difficulty believing that a man in his 4th attempt at the presidency, after 14 years of scheming and plotting will turn out so lame and bereft of ideas. The President of a 21st Century Democracy cannot afford to be this clueless and hands-off-ish. He has watched in near silence the worst form of savagery and bloodletting in our modern history. To give him another term, would be unfair to the old man, like whipping a tired horse.

When Lai Mohammed promised that the 1.4 trillion naira from the TSA will be used as ‘Father Christmas’ handouts to ‘20million’ of the poorest amongst us, many thought it was a joke, vintage Lai, another blatant ‘hot air’ the type for which even within APC, only Lai holds the patent. But alas, it is true, if your state is a ‘political battleground’ state, or depending on which side of the 97.5% versus 5% divide you fit in, you may even get ‘Market Moni’. I will never understand the economic sense in doling out monthly stipends to plan less youths in certain places, sharing out ‘Abacha loot’ while we borrow the same amount from China to support our budget. The revelations from the World Bank President that they were instructed to respect the 97.5% versus 5% formula trounces everything this government has ever done.

I knew the second coming of GMB will not be different from the firsts. I did warn in my blog but Nigerians were past caring. They just wanted a change in the saddle; anything but GEJ. By February 2015 millions of my countrymen were sick of the impunity and kleptocracy of the PDP clan of predators; they were ready to replace them with anyone or anything, even a retired and tired Military Dictator whose High School leaving examination nobody ever saw the certificate. But whatever hope he held out was drowned when he recruited the same old tainted clan of politicians, recycled into the 2015 cabal nay ‘cabinet of saint’. All of them unimpressive without a single exception. Their inability to take responsibility for their failures will always stand them out as a pitiable class of ‘victims’ which we should all quickly forget.
The APC claim of superior morality and credibility was always deeply flawed. An amalgam of the vilest tribalists, the most sordid political capitalist, discredited PDP dropouts, all desperate for power and vengeance, could amount to nothing but the poisonous stew it is. The simpletons who were sold to their cynical manipulations and sloganeering, who voted in droves have been betrayed. Today we have gone full circle, we are back at that same point, where just anything goes. We are back to where we were in February 2015. Budgets after padded budgets, the empty promises of Lai Mohammed will always resonate as great lines of deceitful poetry. The saintly grandfather who came to rid Nigeria of its army of predators and leeches has shown a complete lack of aptitude, indeed his coming has become a hoax. His abysmal failure is a lesson to the next generation of Nigerians, never to worship idols.

I remain an unrepentant optimist; ‘a believer’ in Nigeria’s future greatness. We are yet to live the dreams of our founding fathers. Though we are close to the bottom, Nigeria shall rise again, because we still have the most capable and smartest people on earth. Today they prostrate before imbeciles, tomorrow they will b find their livers and use their brains.

~ Iyabo Obasanjo DVM, PhD.

God help us. This is nothing more than cutting corners in the quality and quantity of materials.

Take care whenever you driving. Don't share your attention.

Who ever invites rain will surely witness rainfall.

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Thread by @JeSuisNaija:

"ITS NEITHER BUHARI NOR ATIKU

We will never have issues based national dialogue until the word ISSUE is properly contextualized.

Drilling it down to what issues are, the issue is, like bacteria, we all shit in d system where we feed. Its safer to just continue cursing one another.

On daily basis, its likely 100 million out of 198million Nigerians only think of how to undermine d system, even where d system is working.
Politicians who embezzle funds didnt learn it at National Institute for Policy & Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos.

The society! We trained them.

Nigerians, if we want to discuss issues, here are issues:

■ For example, majority at Alimosho, d largest voting block in Lagos dont pay for electricity. As their Senator, If u win 1st term by ignoring this scam, u'll lose 2nd term if u attempted changing it during your 1st term.

■ When we want Fx, we want it at official rate; but when we have dollars to change to Naira, Its to black market straight! When u are not mad. As hard as Fx was in 2015, Nigeria students enrolment in US grew from 9,494 to 10,674 in 2016, contributing $324Million to d US economy.

■ Tax is a very serious issue for discussion in US politics. When it came up that may have dodge tax, we quickly turned it into APC-PDP ping-pong. Everybody formed deafness when FIRS officially reported 6000 billionaires, and 800,000 companies have been evading tax.

If it ever happens that you question any person alleged to have evaded tax, who is a member of our religion, from our tribe, moves from an opposition party to the party we support, is our uncle, or knows your dad, you will hear reply like "shebi Buhari doesn't have WAEC." ��

I have an employee that left his job because N1,200 payee was deducted from his N60,000 salary. Either poor or rich, most Nigerians hate any kind of talk about tax payments. Even people govt employed to enforce tax, dodge it too. They are d ones that will teach you how to do it.
If u are a tax consultant in Nigeria and u don't know how to prepare false statement of affairs, or management account, to file doctored annual returns, better go and learn and start UBER.

I have lost major businesses because i demanded for remittance receipts on Witholding Tax.

I have data to show ~62% of companies that received payment for FG contracts between 1999 - 2011 didn't pay tax on payment received from FG, talk more of monies made, that government didnt know about.

Yet, we want infrastructure and we are surprised govt is borrowing to build it.

■ ASUU is on strike again. Apart from claims by TETFUND that each federal university has been receiving N1Billion every year for infrastructure development in d last few years, ask these academicians to provide properly audited accounts, you'll begin to hear cock & bull stories.

CBT Centers charge up to N6,500, but official JAMB fee is N4,000. If JAMB is remitting N7Bn on exams for 1.7million candidates, plz estimate how much universities make from Post UTME, Diplomas, Post Grad, and other internal revenue. These are d issues we dont want to talk about.

In a year, Ekiti University claimed it made N6Bn, but a federal institution in Lagos claimed it made less than N3Bn. Universities account abroad are made public. Ask OAU Ife to do same, you'll see ritual pot at d entrance of the Senate d next day. I dont know if TSA changed that.

If we open our universities for public scrutiny, a good number of ASUU members will be in jail.

■Apart from judges who collect bribe, lets look at court registries. Ikoyi Federal High Court Registry, is very notorious in this regard. I challenge lawyers here to prove otherwise.

RULE OF LAW is a good cliche when govt ask us to give account, but its OK for Melaye to dodge Court Summons.

■A lady told us, how she had a fight with another lady who was removing a full roll of toilet paper from the toilet at d new port Harcourt airport, for her personal use.

■ We claim our institutions aren't working, whereas we all wilfully sabotage them. Its not common again to find INEC conniving to rig elections, unlike the days of Maurice Iwu. While INEC evolved using card reader, we have evolved into buying & selling votes, to bypass it.
N10Billion has been removed from the federal budget for education to fund elections.

The biggest part of that election cost goes into securing ballot boxes from hijackers. To say the fact, no president can do more than the current president is doing.

We are a difficult people! �

Sweet talk. We have been hearing about planning from politicians since.
On getting to power, their plans always still remains planning.
God help us.

Donelli:
What we know
- A diplomat of the federal republic was killed on foreign soil.
- It was established as an assassination.
- Investigations were reported to have been carried out and a certain female Sudanese Nigerian was alleged to have confessed to the crime

What we don't know
- The motive, since it was confirmed as not terrorist related.
- How the case was/is being handled.
- About six months after, nothing is heard of the case.

Conclusion
Like many assassination cases, investigations are either "killed" or the findings are swept under the carpet. The writer in the OP pointed out that this was the first time a Nigerian diplomat would be assassinated on foreign soil and is it a coincidence that it happened in Sudan...

Huuun, we shall see how this story will end

Why are we displaying stupidity openly like there is no longer someone with little sense in our land again.

To say the election was rigged is normal in Nigeria.
But for us on the ground here in kwara, we know that the will of the electorates was fully respected and declared.

Lajet:
It surprised me how non-indigenes coming to rule us in Lagos from Tinubu, Fashola and Ambode. this same people from Osun,Ogun,Ekiti Ondo

Oyo can never accept Non-Indigenes from another state to become local council chairman in their states. we lagosian must wake up and reject this modern day slavery. we must all vote for our lagosian brother Jimi Agbaje

If you do background checks on Jimmy Agbaje family, you might also find out that his forefathers also migrated from somewhere else.
In today's society, many of us we found out that where we call home town is where our grandparents dwells and raised their children, it may not necessarily be where these grandma and grandpa were born.
So, where you were born and raised is automatically your home.

Anyone believing Kanu and his Jubril story need to examine his/her reasoning faculty.
Kanu is calling all of us fools, and the real fools among us are really behaving foolish.
When Kanu know all the nonsense he is talking about now since January 2017, why did he not raise alarm since that time?
Is he now telling all of us that the conspiracy theories he is broadcasting to the world now was sanctioned by the world powers.
Is he not too glaring to every reasonable fellow that this is politics taking too far.
Nigeria and Nigerians must watch out.

MaziOmenuko:
The company was already running at a loss. UAC with all its dedicated machinery kept it afloat hoping for a favourable business environment. At a point, UAC had to suspend the distribution of Swan water in the south west, using all its networks to saturate Gossi and place it as the premium product down south while Swan maintains market lead up north. All for a new business it has only about 15% stake in.

Bottom line is that any business a Nigerian govt has a stake in always heads to abyss. It's not just Gossi and Ekiti govt, check out our refineries and most govt parastatals. It's always the same!

True.
This is simply because of status quo system, bureaucracy, and non committal of management staffs to anything government own.
You will only see the managers bragging about with official cars and other paraphernalia of office while the business is dying.

Until our politicians know that government is a continuous improvement on whatever the previous government left behind and not starting a new project while the other one started before is not complete, we are just wasting our time and resources

BISHOP KUKAH’S RECONCILLATION OF SINNERS AND THE BOOMERANG EFFECT

BY: Celestine Mel
24/10/2018

I just read the long treatise and lengthy epistle by our dearly respected Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah. According to the erudite clergy and renowned peacemaker, he was in Obasanjo’s Otta home 3 weeks ago, to discharge his self and God-imposed responsibility of reconciling enemies and making peace where there is strife, and not to endorse Atiku Abubakar as Presidential candidate. He went to great detail to narrate everything that happened as contained here: https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/10/16/kukah-my-focus-was-to-reconcile-obasanjo-atiku-not-endorsement/

Bishop Kukah has been light to the world since 1800. I have always held him in extreme esteem. The timing of this one though, showed that he, like every one of us, is also human. The mere length of this episcopal explanation, for a simple act of peace-building between warring friends shows that something was not right about it in the first instance.

Agreed that the Bishop was on a peace mission, I wish to ask – peace for who and reconciliation for whom? Can there be peace without justice? Can there be reconciliation and forgiveness without confession and admission? In this instance, what caused the quarrel between OBJ and Atiku? Was it a personal misunderstanding or matters of principle including betrayal of public trust and coveting of public property to personal use? Or was it just an ego thing between two leaders who meant good for our country?

The only way we can address these questions is to reproduce the now-viral narration in OBJ’s book – My Watch, where he copiously, conspicuously and fully documented his perception and root of the distrust between them both. OBJ wrote the following about his friend and former Vice - Atiku “ What I did not know, which came out glaringly later, was his parental background which was somewhat shadowy, his propensity to corruption, his tendency to disloyalty, his inability to say and stick to the truth all the time, a propensity for poor judgment, his belief and reliance on marabouts , his lack of transparency, his trust in money to buy his way out on all issues and his readiness to sacrifice morality, integrity, propriety truth and national interest for self and selfish interest". These are heavy stuff.

I have never read that Atiku has denied these allegations in any way, shape or form. I have not seen a counter narrative by the man or his agents, to strengthen things out in the proper perspective or any legal action taken to sue his former boss for libel. We have instead been fed with dozes of uncommon silence. Instead of taking a firm stand to defend his reputation and image from such heavy dent, we have been seeing our dear former Vice-President, running from pillar to post to impress his accuser and “beg for his forgiveness”! And here lies the burden for our dear Bishop Kukah, to tell exactly the essence of his “peace-making” effort to the society and country.

Could it be that Atiku was guilty of all these allegations? If yes, is OBJ’s forgiveness sufficient to atone for these sins against God and country? Is Bishop Kukah aware of the damage that acts of disloyalty, corruption, malfeasance, untruthfulness, poor judgement, lack of transparency and vested interests have done to our fatherland? If he does, who should he have tried to reconcile? Who are the victims of the misrule of Atiku as contained in OBJ’s book? OBJ himself? Or Nigerians? We need answers.

Under biblical canon and the common cannon law, penance, forgiveness, restitution, reparation and reconciliation go together. One cannot exist without the others. For instance, the Lithurgy and Sacraments website has the following to say about forgiveness: “Confession is for the forgiveness of sins. Once confessed, God forgives the sin and grace is restored. However, that is not to be thought of as a "get out of jail free card." There is still the issue of temporal punishment (reparation or consequences) for the sin. An example might be if a person were to say visit a prostitute. Afterwards, he may feel compelled to confess his sin. He can be assured of the fact that God will indeed forgive the sin, but can he be assured of the fact that there won't be consequences related to the sin (STD, marital problems, etc.)? Will God (who has forgiven the person) further protect that person from any consequences that come about because of his sin? No. The old but good example of the little boy who broke a neighbor’s window while playing ball also illustrates this concept. Initially, the little boy runs home, afraid of what may happen. Then later he feels the guilt of what he did and returns to the neighbor to ask forgiveness. The neighbor tells the little boy that he forgives him, but is that the end? No, forgiveness maybe given but in this case it doesn't fix the broken window. The boy should be expected to repair the damage (reparation).” In another example, the website draws the following illustration and I quote verbatim: “There are two brothers. The older brother discovers the younger brother's piggy bank and finds that it contains $5. He takes the money and spends it on candy later that day. However, by that evening the older brother was feeling guilty over having taken the money and confesses to his younger brother and asks him to forgive him. His younger brother does, in fact, say that he forgives his brother. Again, should that be the end of the story; or should the older brother, though forgiven, repay his brother for the money he had stolen? Rest assured any temporal punishment (payment) that isn't paid here on earth will still be paid in purgatory.” (Source: The Liturgy Website)

This writer does not intend to join issues with the nobly respected Bishop Kukah. In fact, the mention of the Bishop’s name evokes sweet, wonderful and fond memories, especially, the role he played as Secretary of the National Peace and Reconciliation Committee (also known as Oputa Panel) where he opened our eyes a great deal to the failures and foibles of the Nigerian project, the conspiracies that intertwine to drag her down, and the wicked perfidious single-minded determination of our ruling elites under different military and civilian apparatchik to destroy the soul of Nigeria. Bishop Kukah was the secretary. He did a good job. He served his country well. Also worthy of note is the Bishop’s sustained campaign at home and abroad for the restitution and cleansing of the despoiled Ogoni land, wroth on by the almighty Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria. In both instances, the Bishop could have as well feigned ignorance or put on an I-don’t-care attitude, or simply partook (like other fellow –but self-appointed – jet-plane-owning, universities-owning, blessing-is-a-commodity-hawking, gatekeepers-of-hell Bishops) to connive with the ruling bourgeoisie class to “see-no-evil, hear-no-evil” and do nothing. With the benefit of hindsight, Bishop Kukah has always meant well for this great nation.

In the matter of endorsement of Atiku at Otta in the presence of Bishop Oyedepo (who has used the sanctity of his Winners’ alter to repeatedly sow naked scary hate against an ethnic and religious group as can be seen in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5urgzmYnEM , and this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uZonWIQuE , the Bishop committed a blunder. His Excellency Atiku Abubakar is a Fulani man like President Buhari. Atiku is a Muslim like Buhari is. Atiku is a northerner like Buhari is. Atiku is 70+ years old like Buhari is. The only difference between both men today is that Buhari is strongly and staunchly incorruptible while Atiku’s history with sleaze is well documented. And this last factor is at the core of the struggle and vicious campaign to pull PMB down by all means, using all sorts of falsehoods, lies, innuendoes and cooked up stories. Buhari has insisted that those who have fed fat from Nigeria – Bishops who own Universities and private jets and Imams who live off the sweat of their flock – must pay their fair share of tax. Buhari has insisted that we all must contribute to build our nation in our different ways, within our capabilities. That should not be such a big issue, ordinarily. But it is with Bishops that own multi-billion US Dollar property and mansions all around the world and have never paid a dime of tax on any.

In 2015, Bishop Kukah openly endorsed former President Jonathan, just as Bishop Oyedepo did. Both men did not support Buhari. It turned out that the masses of Nigeria wanted change from the old crooked ways of the previous 16 years. So, they voted for Buhari against the wishes of Kukah and Oyedepo. That vote has turned out to be the Achilles hills of unexplained wealth accumulators.

We cannot pretend that all is well; continue doing the same things and expecting different results. Bishop Kukah should know that we understand the undercurrents of all the gang-up and odious determination of wealthy filthy Nigerians to stop a Buhari second term by hook or crook. It is hinged on the fear of the final clampdown that PMB would bring to looters and plunderers of our commonwealth once-and-for-all. They are so afraid that Buhari would not be mild as he is today especially as he would not need anybody’s support for any term in the future again. We understand that the rich and soiled, are desperate to rein in President Buhari, to cut their ongoing losses. We are aware that licenses to oil wells are gradually expiring, and the super-rich who have cornered these wells for so long, are afraid that the tap is drying up, and they can do anything under the sun, to give life to those dry taps again. We know, and the common man knows.

Bishop Kukah misfired in Otta. He found himself in the company of leaches. His explanation about the sanctity of that mission does not belie the truth that he has lately been sympathetic to the old order that brought our nation to her knees. We pray the spirit of discernment on our dear Bishop Kukah so that he would not need to write lengthy explanations again, on a simple visit for peace and reconciliation, even if it goes awry. This country is our own. We must build it together.

*** Celestine Mel is a Chartered Banker, Projects Specialist, IT Consultant and Public Affairs Analyst from Essien Udim LGA, Akwa Ibom State. He writes from the FCT-Abuja.

Too much desperation. Something is wrong about this Okorocha desperate for his son in law.
Our politicians are getting more greedier in their quest for power.
Now trying to make the sit of government looking like a family affair.
Uche Nwosu is very qualified for the position of governor of IMO STATE.
But this particular ambition of Okorocha is putting serious dent on Uche chances.

Nigerians BEWARE. Politicians don't die for election, they DEFECT! If U die because of them, U die for NOTHING!

I hope there will be solutions to all these problems of everyone wanting his/her candidates to win at all costs.

Another round of useless shadow chasing.
4 years ago, this same noise was raised. It didn't stop buhari from winning the contest and becoming the president.
Why would a sain fellow be so busy fighting for nothing.
In all honesty, Buhari secondary school certificate should not have become an issue.
A man that have been serving in the public services on the highest level.
A former Army General ( We all know what it means to rose through the rankings), a former federal minister, a former military governor, a former military head of state and a sitting President.
There are many burdering issues that supposed to energized our discussion about 2019 elections.
Buhari secondary school education should not be what a serious minded people should occupied themselves with

Not really sure of any sain man/woman that will firstly work for another to eat before taking care of his/her household.
Politics is a game of interest. You first take care of your interest before looking at how you can help your friends out.
Umahi is not a novice in the political field or so I think.
Fashola is saying it as it is.
Wagging your mouth about a re-branded party is also good.
But, you must build your bridges before the water start gushing.