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ilugunboy: The traditional strongholds of APC already secured.....moving on to break into new frontiers.

Next rally bus stop will be Kwara...block by block..inch by inch....APC is delving into PDP strongholds.

Who say two party system is not good?

plaindealer: Cry me a river. The only pig here is the PDP and they are sick and tired of associating with the pigs. They are gone, I mean long long gone so stop all the crying and worrying. No be by force abeg..

Why ACN imposes candidates – Akande
News Jan 20, 2011

By GBENGA OLARINOYE

OSHOGBO— NATIONAL Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Bisi Akande, has justified the imposition of candidates by party elders saying it was the culture of the party that the leadership knew best.

Akande who spoke in an interview with newsmen also defended the choice of erstwhile Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC as the party’s presidential candidate. He said that with the choice of Ribadu, the party has commenced the process of turning over leadership to the youths.

The ACN chairman who spoke to newsmen as part of events marking his birthday  noted: “The British democracy is the oldest in the world and you cannot see political parties there conducting primary elections before choosing their candidates. They do it by picking competent hands that are trustworthy in the judgment of the party. So, we believe that elections under a democratic setting is when we are contesting with other political party during polls.

“If election within our party is what you are trying to describe as internal democracy, then we reject such idea. Can we impose when we are contesting against PDP?

Party knows what people want

continue here

Why ACN imposes candidates – Akande
News Jan 20, 2011

By GBENGA OLARINOYE

OSHOGBO— NATIONAL Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Bisi Akande, has justified the imposition of candidates by party elders saying it was the culture of the party that the leadership knew best.

Akande who spoke in an interview with newsmen also defended the choice of erstwhile Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC as the party’s presidential candidate. He said that with the choice of Ribadu, the party has commenced the process of turning over leadership to the youths.

The ACN chairman who spoke to newsmen as part of events marking his birthday  noted: “The British democracy is the oldest in the world and you cannot see political parties there conducting primary elections before choosing their candidates. They do it by picking competent hands that are trustworthy in the judgment of the party. So, we believe that elections under a democratic setting is when we are contesting with other political party during polls.

“If election within our party is what you are trying to describe as internal democracy, then we reject such idea. Can we impose when we are contesting against PDP?

Party knows what people want

continue here

4Wilywily: I like that Tinubu picture,

Soloter: pdp is known for one thing - electoral fraud, and whenever an individual boasts about pdp's ability to spring surprises then I conclude about his/her political ideology. where in the last five years has pdp won any election clean that you'll come to this forum and be praising them? you must be one of those who help them to rig elections that's why you are confident in their ability to spring surprises.

ifyalways: Another important information for those that lock their phones(with passwords), when traveling please unlock your phones. ICE won't work on a locked phone.

solomon111: I am surprised that many can't seet this.
For a nation of 170million,with one of the smallest GDP/CAPITAL,we can't use our meagre resources in importing stuffs like food,especially when we have an abundant sea life and high-scale unemployment.
It's madness.
This absurdity is comparable to the importation of petrol when we can simply create refineries and refine our own crude

grandstar: I told a friend of mine that in the 18th century, when the Queen of France was told that the people of France were complaining that there was no bread, she recommended they should eat cake.

My friend was shocked and send they should cut off her head. And I smiled and said that is what they did!

People are hungry and fish which is one of the cheapest sources of protein is being banned! The Agric minister may mean well bnut he is on a wrong path .. Prov 14:12, Prov 16:25.

Do you know that the world produces enough food to feed 12billion people? Yet out of a world population of 7billion, 1 billion go to bed hungry? Isn't it scandalous? India produces enough food to feed itself and even export but hunger is a huge problem in that country.

Why is this so? Because the primary cause of hunger is not a lack of food. It is actually alack of money. Is there not enough food in our markets. Many of these foods even rot in the face of prevailing hunger.

The agric minister is simply worsening the problem. Food in many countries is more expensive than it necessarily is because of either high import duties, quotas or outright bans on food imports. Will this not simply increase the price of food? That is what it actually does.

One will argue that should a country not be able to feed itself. If you believe that myth, then you probably believe that India beat Nigeria 99-0.

You do not have to be able to feed yourself to be a developed or rich country.Britain can not feed itself. Singapore or Hong Kong can not feed themselves. Saudi Arabia and most Gulf States can not feed themselves. Yet are they poor? The people there are well fed or do you think I am lying. Are Saudi's or even Libyans starving? Some of you have been there. Is not almost all their foods imported? You will think in these countries food grows in supermarkets! It is because the people have the money to buy[i][/i] the food

Countries do not grow rich by being self sufficient.It is a myth. They grow rich by focusing resources in areas they have comparative advantage. This secret has been known since the 19th century.Look at what the oil sector alone has done for this country.If we had six products like that, do you think Nigeria will be poor. A Jack of all trades is usually a master of none.By specializing, you will rule the world.

We are good in cocoa, sorghum, snails (if well harnesses can bring in up to a $1b), kolanuts( almost $500 if also well harnessed) and several other products.

Why ACN imposes candidates – Akande
News Jan 20, 2011

By GBENGA OLARINOYE

OSHOGBO— NATIONAL Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Chief Bisi Akande, has justified the imposition of candidates by party elders saying it was the culture of the party that the leadership knew best.

Akande who spoke in an interview with newsmen also defended the choice of erstwhile Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC as the party’s presidential candidate. He said that with the choice of Ribadu, the party has commenced the process of turning over leadership to the youths.

The ACN chairman who spoke to newsmen as part of events marking his birthday  noted: “The British democracy is the oldest in the world and you cannot see political parties there conducting primary elections before choosing their candidates. They do it by picking competent hands that are trustworthy in the judgment of the party. So, we believe that elections under a democratic setting is when we are contesting with other political party during polls.

“If election within our party is what you are trying to describe as internal democracy, then we reject such idea. Can we impose when we are contesting against PDP?

Party knows what people want

continue here

asha 80: funny you are now saying judging from what you used to say prior to 2011 elections in imo where you said that okigwe zone be allowed to finish its four years through ohakim after orlu zone was 'allowed' the same time for udenwa.https://www.nairaland.com/asha%202/posts

Abagworo: What most people have failed to understand is that APGA is an Anambra party not the entire Igbo. They have zero influence in any other SE state. As for Rochas,he is definitely going to loose because he is from Orlu. Orlu has to wait for 12 years to produce another Governor.Any Governor for 2011 must be from Okigwe zone and 2015-2023 from Owerri zone.

Afam4eva: The police should curtain the movement of a Nigerian within Nigerian? Are you kidding me?

Theben: When they unleash mayhem, the government should take the blame for not providing adequate security. Not all Hausas are Boko Haramists and not all are violent.

The Hausas did not react to the influx of the igbos into their land with statements like "they are criminals, they are kidnappers".

Whoever commits a crime should be prosecuted. The individual should take the blame and not the tribe.

berem: You think its only the hausas that have monopoly to violence? Is there any part of this country or in diaspora an Igbo man has migrated to that you haven't heard of crimes committed by an Igbo man? Just as an Igbo man is business oriented,so is the hausa man.

Afam4eva: Are Hausas not Nigerians? They have the right to live anywhere they choose to. It's not your business. Go get a job.

Abagworo: Only Abia State has significant Hausa population in the East. Infact there are more Hausas in Umuchieze than the indigenes and we've never heard them complain but rather they tap into the increased business activities brought about by the high Hausa population.

Igbos should not in the process of naively falling for politics of tribalism forget that we are far more in other people's zone.

kedikenet: All this arsenal haters shouting we've not played any big team is it not the same small teams that are beating you pple dat we are beating chelsea fans are u pple even suppose to talk common stoke dat we won 3:1 beat u pple jst yesterday and man u atleast we've not lost any game bac to bac in our own house and lest I forget nt to the so called small teams so u pple cqn go on winning big team and let us continue teaching u guys how to beat the small teams.gunners till the world end. :PAll this arsenal haters shouting we've not played any big team is it not the same small teams that are beating you pple dat we are beating chelsea fans are u pple even suppose to talk common stoke dat we won 3:1 beat u pple jst yesterday and man u atleast we've not lost any game bac to bac in our own house and lest I forget nt to the so called small teams so u pple cqn go on winning big team and let us continue teaching u guys how to beat the small teams.gunners till the world end.