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Politics › Re: Nationwide Blackout Looms As PHCN Workers Begin Strike On October 2nd by gratiaeo(m): 8:00pm On Oct 01, 2013
this their chairman na mumu PHCN wey don go strike since last 2 weeks
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 7:00pm On Oct 01, 2013
abinsco25: Ask those hypocrites that are against the merging of the schools in Osun state where there children schooling.None of them has his/her children in the public schools.Their children attend the best private schools pay their school fees with our money and the common man's children attend the debilitated public schools and our past leader care not.Our education needs a reformation,we can't continue with the Awolowo model schools,they are outdated,now that there is someone that is ready to reform the education system,they are now crying.Why? Let them cry!" Won a sunku ku ni,omo Ole"Aregbe carry on,2014 no shaking,Abere straight.
By closing and merging schools build by past government? (The labor of our heroes
past Shall never be in vain)
No vex o make i ask you, is population of Osun state growing or decreasing? If growing as it should supposedly be how come closing/merging of school instead of building more?
Many question begging for answer
No wonder southeast/south has overtaken southwest in education
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 6:36pm On Oct 01, 2013
Gbawe my guy no vex abeg may i ask you this 1 question
What is the need embarking on project of 8.6billion when you can not afford to pay teachers salary.
The touted Awo free education has gone to the dog chai!
Bellow is the Nairalander discussion on the said Opon Imo, who knew that it will turnout like this...
https://www.nairaland.com/1311395/opon-imo-launched-osun-today
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 6:19pm On Oct 01, 2013
Atouke: You mean the opon imo? thats what that article was about. here is the fact Rauf released N8.5billion for 3500 units of opon imo to his son kabiru which on its own is very controversial interms of cost/nepotism.

but the problem is of the 3500 units ordered only 600 units has been released in the entire state ie 200 units per senatorial district and there are over 1million school age kids in osun state. hence i classify Opon imo project as a media hyped initiated/ started project untill all the 3500units of opon imo is released and concrete plans are on grounds to provide for the remaining 996,500 + school kids.
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 6:08pm On Oct 01, 2013
MOD, why is this revelation not on front page?
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 5:49pm On Oct 01, 2013
eGuerrilla: Did @OP bother to verify any of the points raised in that article before going to town with his proclamations of ABSOLUTE guilt?

We need to continue asking the difficult questions our public administrators would rather not have tabled, but we also need avoid advancing prosecutorial agendas in the absence of credible proof.




Source
See them!
Osun state "has said", while the children said other wise. Am sure the Op is saying the whole truth if not for but Opon Imo scam
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 5:01pm On Oct 01, 2013
Gbawe: Mumu, no one owes a prejudiced and hateful individual like you any explanation or back-and-forth discussion because your nauseatingly distasteful stereotyping of the Yoruba ethnic group, which your writing repeatedly bears out here, means it is only a foolish Yoruba person who will indulge a bigoted cad like you. That I have said what needs to be said about you and your ilk should not lead a wretched creature like you to believe I have time for your continuous 1diocy.
I thought as much. Gbawe am a fool yes even stu'pid, but can never be a liar like you, what's your joy in telling lies? What will it profit you deceiving your fellow Yorubas with your lies there by forcing them to live in denial, as we all know, most of them are ignorantly following you, fight and defending Aregbesola ilks without knowing anything about their so called leaders.
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 4:38pm On Oct 01, 2013
Gbawe: Then do so with common sense and a respect for others - especially if you are not in a position to know as much as they do. Inspect issues to discern that they make sense before trying to instigate others against their own leader who happens to be performing well for them as all of us Nigerians say we want. If you know Nigeria currently, then you will understand that the more a leader is rated a man of his people, the more the indolent and corrupt political establishment resents him and wish to pull him down. It is down to the people to give those leaders the protection the likes of Nkrumah, Lumumba et al never got to the detriment of their people. Not many, when they are enjoying the work of the man, will let you guys come here to trash Aregbesola with lies.

You should, if a gracious person, defer to stakeholders. The consistent support for Aregbesola here on this thread is not accidental. Such support comes from people who knew what obtained before Aregbesola came on board and what has been achieved today under him. You cannot come here disrespecting those stakeholders while hiding under the excuse of "condemning corruption". The accusations are too ludicrous to be taken seriously by those fully aware of the facts. This is why stakeholders have all pooh-poohed this poor effort packaged around an id1otically unbelievable pack of lies.

By the way, I am not surprised you did not comment on how I expose the "Ratcom" lie of the article author and only seem interested in pushing your deceitful angle of "I am a Nigerian condemning corruption everywhere" nonsense. Totally expected response from someone lacking sincerity. You, my friend, are the real and proud user of the "tribal colored glasses" you think others wear.
Nonsense!
We are only interested to hear more about
1) Opon Imo allegedly Scam
2)merging and demolition of schools
Or keep quite for good
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 4:32pm On Oct 01, 2013
Gbawe: As usual, it is those like you who are not from the south west, but full of indoctrinated hatred for the region and her people, who will be most negatively vocal and full of anger on a thread like this where issues under discussion do not concern you in any way at all. It may piss you off that the stakeholders themselves have given this garbage write-up short shrift but you should know you will always be exposed as ignorant when, out of hatred, you join issues that you know nothing about. Posters are dismissive of this article because it is a load of crap and a pack of lies even a child of six cannot take seriously. I am not surprised it is you guys with nothing to do with Osun or even the SW shedding blood here and making a fool of yourselves. Aregbesola's people love and appreciate him. They are bright and "sophisticated" enough to see what you hateful elements can never discern. The allegations are a disgraceful joke only your engine, moving on hate oil, revs to. The example below shows how much of a botch job this crap is.



Can you tell us the company called Ratcom the article author mentions twice? Surprised that Ratcom does not exist? The company in question is called Ratcon. When your accuser does not even know the proper spelling of the company name it is not surprising he is confused over the ownership of a Company that was inaugurated in 1990 (23 years ago when Aregbesola and many of the current crop of SW leaders were in their late 20ties and early 30ties) and owned by a Lebanese-Nigerian !!!!!! What manner of senseless accusation is that even for your ultra-dull brain? Is this the sort of idiotically senseless and illogical character assassination you want people to respond to?

Unfortunately for you, most who have responded (unlike you and your co-travellers in hate) are too well-informed to be fooled by a poorly-packaged set of unbelievably stupid lies only hateful m0r0ns will be taken in by. You cannot, however hard you try, instigate people to harbour disaffection for their own leader they know is genuinely doing well. You should check yourself and accept that your hatred should have a limit tied to human decency and respect for boundaries. You overstep your boundary with your misguided and uninformed attempt to mock the entire Yoruba ethnic group based on your own abject ignorance. The lack of sophistication you infer applies only to you.

http://www.ratconconstruction.com/details/about_us.html
slowpoke we are talking about Opon Scam, here you are shamelessly displaying your stu pidity. Who cares who own ratcon company and when it was established
Mr Gwawe answer me, how come only 200 students in whole local gvt have receive the so called Opon Imo
"One of the most celebrated achievements of the Rauf Aregbesola’s
government in Osun State in Opon Imo {Tablet PC} with inbuilt text books
and past exam questions for WEAC and JAMB. The launch of the tablets and
its distribution to students in the state was hailed and an innovative
move by the state government by many.

The N8.2 billion tablets christened Opon Imo may however take on a new
name, some people have already christened Opon Scam because of new
revelations coming out the procurement, configuration and distribution
of the tablets.

Kabiru Aregbesola, the 27 year old son of Ogbeni Aregbesola has been
revealed as the brain behind the procurement of the tablets. Though the
governor has laboured hard to deny the involvement of his son in the
procurement, insisting that he only helped with software without
invoicing the state, sources say the governor may be hiding the truth
from Osun people and Nigerians.

“ The governor actually believes Osun people are not intelligent and for
that he is trying to cover our faces with wool. He has forgotten that at
Ilesha, during the launch of the tablets, Tinubu was looking for
Kabiru; they wanted to hide the boy as they did not want people to know
that it was Kabiru that handled the project. It was Tinubu that exposed
everything. He called Kabiru and said you are a billionaire now,
announcing publicly that Kabiru is the brain behind the tablets”, the
source said.

Aside the above, there are concerns over the distribution of the
tablets, as sources say that contrary to widespread propaganda by the
state government, only very few of the tablets are in circulation.

“In my own local government area, I don’t think we have fifty students
that have the tablets and they are saying it on air that they have
distributed it to all SS3 and SS2 students in my local. You can go round
all the local government areas in Ife division comprising of Ife North,
Ife East, Ife Central, Ife South and the Area Council Modakeke and you
will not get more than 200 of the tablets.

Let Aregbesola come out with his statistics and let him also take us to
where the tablets are. This Opon Imo project is a scam in its entirety.
It is another avenue for Aregbesola and his family to continue to steal
the state blind. How can you procure tablets for N8.2 billion and we
won’t feel it? It does not make sense”, a source said. "
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 3:54pm On Oct 01, 2013
geeez: E dey pain some people as Yorubaland dey take develop

E dey pepper dem for body

E dey melt their hearts like magma through butter

E dey make dem get sleepless nights

E dey torment their minds

E dey totori their souls

E dey cause network jam for their brains

E dey make dem wonder why their governors cant generate half of N1.6bn per month

E dey frustrate dem as Osun State take get the fourth highest GDP in southern Nigeria in 2012

They cant come to terms with how a state the adjudge as so poor can afford to invest so much in education in an unprecedented way that even the UK and US have not done, by distributing tablets that contain text books free of charge

Dem don get headache, constipation, backache, catarrh, hypertension and even stroke

But as you see us so, we no send you o

Na to progress we dey, from Ikeja to Ado Ekiti, from Oshogbo to Abeokuta, from Olokola, to Ogbomosho

God bless the Yoruba race

God bless Yorubaland
You are the most celebrated fool of all time
Nairaland General › Aregbesola "OPON IMO" A Scam? by gratiaeo(op): 3:24pm On Oct 01, 2013
One of the most celebrated achievements of the Rauf Aregbesola’s
government in Osun State in Opon Imo {Tablet PC} with inbuilt text books
and past exam questions for WEAC and JAMB. The launch of the tablets and
its distribution to students in the state was hailed and an innovative move by the state government by many.

The N8.2 billion tablets christened Opon Imo may however take on a new
name, some people have already christened Opon Scam because of new revelations coming out the procurement, configuration and distribution
of the tablets.

Kabiru Aregbesola, the 27 year old son of Ogbeni Aregbesola has been revealed as the brain behind the procurement of the tablets. Though the
governor has laboured hard to deny the involvement of his son in the procurement, insisting that he only helped with software without
invoicing the state, sources say the governor may be hiding the truth from Osun people and Nigerians.

“ The governor actually believes Osun people are not intelligent and for
that he is trying to cover our faces with wool. He has forgotten that at
Ilesha, during the launch of the tablets, Tinubu was looking for
Kabiru; they wanted to hide the boy as they did not want people to know
that it was Kabiru that handled the project. It was Tinubu that exposed everything. He called Kabiru and said you are a billionaire now, announcing publicly that Kabiru is the brain behind the tablets”, the
source said.

Aside the above, there are concerns over the distribution of the tablets, as sources say that contrary to widespread propaganda by the
state government, only very few of the tablets are in circulation.

“In my own local government area, I don’t think we have fifty students that have the tablets and they are saying it on air that they have distributed it to all SS3 and SS2 students in my local. You can go round
all the local government areas in Ife division comprising of Ife North, Ife East, Ife Central, Ife South and the Area Council Modakeke and you will not get more than 200 of the tablets.

Let Aregbesola come out with his statistics and let him also take us to where the tablets are. This Opon Imo project is a scam in its entirety.
It is another avenue for Aregbesola and his family to continue to steal the state blind. How can you procure tablets for N8.2 billion and we won’t feel it? It does not make sense”, a source said.

https://m.facebook.com/pages/Segun-Akinwusi/1376151635956042?id=1376151635956042&_rdr
This is unfair!
Politics › Re: Aregbesola’s Massive Looting Of Osun State by gratiaeo(m): 3:06pm On Oct 01, 2013
Yorubas are sophisticated Indeed
I must say that 99.7% posters here are stup id. None cared to tackle op base on the point he raised instead resort to name calling. am also inclined to
want to believe what the op has
posted especially about Opon Imo (Opon Scam) i humble ask somebody to come up with "fact"
Celebrities › Re: Jim Iyke Denies He Was Delivered From Witchcraft by gratiaeo(m): 1:26pm On Oct 01, 2013
Me too need deliverance, but shame no go allow me go to that church. #Don't want my guys to laugh @ me
Politics › Re: France Would Have Destroyed Nigeria Over Bakassi - Duke by gratiaeo(m): 1:12pm On Oct 01, 2013
papparatzzi2013: So Ojukwu forgot to enter into such pact with France or what exactly are you driving at?

Your a$$$e$ were whooped alongside France Israel SA and Sweden that supported you and leave with it for the rest of your life.
Ok! We have notice you. Next person
Politics › Re: France Would Have Destroyed Nigeria Over Bakassi - Duke by gratiaeo(m): 1:10pm On Oct 01, 2013
Everybody is a general and commander in Nigeria. Nigeria that can not fight and defeat Boko Haram, they can only wage war against France in dream.
It su ck to be Nigeria
Politics › Re: France Would Have Destroyed Nigeria Over Bakassi - Duke by gratiaeo(m): 12:41pm On Oct 01, 2013
gare: Thanks for that if Duke can come out and say he is afraid of France then he is not fit to rule us, I learnt he had presidential ambitions this is how he would give this country out to super powers all in the name that they are so powerful.

It shows that they read and they gather themselves with thieves and are there to loot and give out part of our country.
Yoruba people have come to blame Donald Duke.
Guy was he the commander in chief of Nigeria Army? Blame your brother, the general who only won Biafra war with help of USA, Britain, Egypt, Canada etc
Politics › Re: Jonathan Sets Up National Confab C’ttee by gratiaeo(m): 9:10am On Oct 01, 2013
Supported. Carry on GEJ
Politics › Re: CAPTION THIS PHOTO OF FASOLA by gratiaeo(m): 7:02am On Oct 01, 2013
TribalEAST: THE OGBUEFI 1 OF ALAIGBO!


He deported them...they gave him cows...they made him a chief...they will soon give him a wife. Mtchew.
Even @40 you are still this fooli.sh
Crime › Re: Theft At Shoprite In Ibadan by gratiaeo(m): 6:57am On Oct 01, 2013
Happy independent to you all
Abeg thief dey everywhere not only in Ibadan
Politics › Re: Our Amalgamation Is A Mistake – Ankio-briggs by gratiaeo(op): 6:32am On Oct 01, 2013
This country would have be a thing of the past if not for our hypocrisy brother from the west.
Happy "yeye" independent to you all
Politics › Our Amalgamation Is A Mistake – Ankio-briggs by gratiaeo(op): 6:29am On Oct 01, 2013
BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE
MS Ankio Briggs, rights activist and one of the leaders of the National Summit Group, says there is nothing to celebrate at 53 and the amalgamation of Northern and Southern protectorates to create Nigeria was a mistake. Excerpts:
•How do you view Nigeria at
53?
I’m yet to see what we are
celebrating. If we are
celebrating the fact that we
have had independence for 53
years and lived together for a
100 years then, 100 is just a
figure. When you are
celebrating, you have to show
what you have achieved. And
the question I’m asking is what
have we achieved?
Unity? We are not united in this country. Developmentally, what have we achieved? I mean in things like roads and what have you? These are the things that should matter as we are progressing. We shouldn’t now be building roads at 100.
We should be improving on
what we have built may be at
30, 40, 50, 60, not starting the
development of Nigeria after a
100 years of being together.
So, for me, those are the things
I use as yardstick to measure
Nigeria. Like other countries are sending satelite into the space, Nigeria sent a satelite and lost it.
So, we should ask ourselves if
Nigeria is not too big a country
to be governed the way in which we are being governed today?
Should we not have states being responsible for themselves?
This is why national conference is necessary.
We have been like this for 100
years, aside the fact that we
have been together and this is
what everybody tells us as if it’s
such a big deal to be together.

America is still together and
look at what they have
achieved, likewise other
countries. Other countries like
the Soviet Union, Sudan, have
broken up.
For Nigeria, I think by age
alone, we are matured enough
to ask ourselves some questions
and answer them in a truthful
manner. We are just deceiving
ourselves.
•People have said the coming together of different parts of the country is a mistake, do
you agree?
I totally agree, but we can’t take responsibility for that, I might say, because it’s not Nigerians that created Nigeria.
It’s Lord Luggard who created
Nigeria that brought us together and called us one people. But it’s very clear today that that’s not so. The North is the North and the South is the South.
These regions are made up of so many people with different
cultures, religions, foods and
different ways of looking at
things.
And when you bring them
together to say they should look at things the same way, you are telling them to look at Nigeria in only one way.
But one day, some of this people will wake up and say, look, things are not working for us this way.
The people it works for will
resist other people who don’t
want the process to remain like
that. So, this is the problem
Nigeria is having and anybody
that doesn’t see it like that is not telling himself the truth.
•Do we have any basis for
Nigeria’s unity?
We have basis in the sense that
it’s our choice. It should be our
choice and it will be our choice,
because that’s why we have
these discussions going on now.
I believe Nigeria can be a great
country and that Nigerians can
live together.
Look at the circumstances we
are in and we are still able to
manage it and to drag it along.
But we shouldn’t be managing.
We should have some rules and regulations that we all accept.
We should agree on how and
when we are going to do it and
once we agree, it will be much
easier. The problem we are
having is that we didn’t agree.
And we have not found the
basis on which we are agreeing.
We must find that basis. It’s
possible to live together. But the question is how? What are the terms and conditions?
Nobody is saying we shouldn’t
live together. We are saying
how? Who brings what? Who
owns what? Who controls
what? How much should I
bring? How much should you
bring? How much What if we keep everything and pay something to the centre?
These are the things we need to
look at together. We can live
together, but how?
•Now, how do you think we
can live together in peace
and harmony in Nigeria?
Well, it won’t be for one person
alone. I can only speak for my
people. Like for instance, I come from Rivers State, which is in Niger Delta region.
For instance, most of what we
are using to develop the country today is coming from my region, from my state.
Now, all I’m saying is that that
should not be so. It has made
every other state which does not have oil not to bring anything to the table.
So, what I’m saying is that we
should have ownership of our
resources and pay tax to the
Federal Government. That way, everybody will be responsible for themselves.
And then, we from the Niger
Delta will not feel that the
weight of developing Nigeria is
on our back and that we as a
people are not gaining anything from it.
•What percentage of tax do
you think the regions
should pay to the centre?
Taxes are usually 5 per cent, 2
per cent, 40 per cent and
whatever. It’s something we
must all agree upon. I mean, it’s not something that I will say, it should be like this.
What percentage do you suggest?
Well, I think 10 per cent.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/amalgamation-mistake-ankio-briggs/
Crime › Re: Eight Men Molest A Teenager To Death In Anambra by gratiaeo(m): 12:07am On Oct 01, 2013
Italiano1: I cannot believe this!!!!

But whyhuh

Actually, I am not surprised after I read why the men are from
Im.becile
Crime › Re: Eight Men Molest A Teenager To Death In Anambra by gratiaeo(m): 11:08pm On Sep 30, 2013
Controversy: A thread with less than 4 post already on post?
BUT this 1 was hear since morning with over 5 page eh!
authorities of Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State heaved a sigh of relief on Friday, September 20 when the mystery behind the headless corpses they usually picked in communities under the local government was resolved with the arrest of Seyi Akinrinola when he when to pick a human head he hung on a tree in the bush at Igbo-Oloyin area, Ibadan, Oyo State. Also arrested was Ajitoni Ogundeji whom Akinrinola claimed prompted his search for a head.
On that day, policemen did a lot of work to contain the large crowd which besieged Ojoo division of Oyo State Police Command to catch a glimpse of the human head and the suspects in possession of it. Despite the odour from the decomposed head, the crowd stayed put, as many more rushed to join as soon the news spread to them.
The head was obviously that of a female. The flesh around had eaten off, except for a little which was at the back, and to which the few strands of hair that remained were attached.
Akinrinola thought he was smart. To avoid being detected, after securing a head, the suspect decided to keep it on the tree until it would be dry. But the fart he thought he released silently was loud enough for others to hear.
At about 10: 00a.m. same day, the divisional Police Officer in charge of Ojoo division, Musiliu Doga, received an information that a human head was sighted on a tree. He promptly went out with his men to survey the place. After he confirmed the information he received to be true, the DPO reportedly put some of his men on ground to lay ambush for the person that would come to pick the head.
The plan worked out. According to the Police Public Relation Officer of the command, Olabisi Okuwobi-Ilobanafor, "About an hour, after the policemen laid an ambush, they saw a man who approached the site where the head was hung on a motorcycle. He got down from the bike and, holding a polythene bag, went to where the head was hung and put it the bag. As he made to go, the policemen emerged from hiding and apprehended him."
Upon arrest, Akinrinola reportedly pleaded to be handled gently as he had an accomplice. He disclosed to the policemen that it was a native doctor he consulted for help who requested for the human head in order to help him prepare a charm that would serve as bullet proof.
In an interview, 30-year-old Akinrinola, who said he was residing at Demilokun area of Igbo Oloyin, disclosed that he was once a butcher but left the job to become a farmer. He denied killing the owner of the head, saying that it belonged to a mad woman whose corpse he saw along Igbo Oloyin road.
"I am a member of Oodua People's Congress and also a farmer. When we used to go to Saki side to buy cows, armed robbers used to trouble us so much on the way. I left the butcher job about five years ago but I intend to return to it.
"Ogundeji was like a brother in my area, so I told him that I needed a charm that would prevent bullet from entering my body in case I am shot at. He told me that he would do it for me if I could bring a human head.
"I found the woman's body along Igbo Oloyin road where she died. We did not cut the head; we just pulled it off the neck."
When questioned on how he knew the corpse was that of a mad woman, Akinrinola replied: "She was a mad woman, even the villagers confirmed it. I was the one who removed the head at about 7.30p.m. about three weeks ago. After cutting it, I travelled, but I learnt that local government officials came to remove the headless body. Ogundeji is a hunter; that was why I believed he would know what to do to prepare bullet proof charm. Two days before my arrest, Ogundeji came to ask whether I got a head and I told him I have found one. I hung the head on a tree beside the house I was living because it was smelling."
On whether he was an armed robber who needed to protect himself against an onslaught by law enforcement agents, the suspect said: "Never. I have never robbed in my life. My lineage had never been involved in robbery. My arrest is a great shame because I don't even understand myself. I have never done such a thing in my life. I am an orphan because my parents are dead.
How was he caught? Akinrinola gave an answer: "I believe people from my community who saw the head informed the police."
Howhttp://m.naij.com/news/48450.html
Lol... yoro peeps are on revenge mission
Crime › Re: Eight Men Molest A Teenager To Death In Anambra by gratiaeo(m): 11:04pm On Sep 30, 2013
kingthreat: Why is most rape news coming from the SE lately? hope the lunatics don't step their feet in lagos. there, they will meet their waterloo
RIP to the dead
Mind you or this thread will turn to something else which you may not like
Politics › Re: 'PHCN' Bill For The Month Of September by gratiaeo(m): 10:34pm On Sep 30, 2013
I never take my kolo kolo eyes see right since over a month now..... May god punish any witch sorry PHCN way go carry radar near my electric pole
Politics › Anambra Guber: Preview And Battle Grounds Of The Leading Gladiators by gratiaeo(op): 1:07pm On Sep 30, 2013
By Chidi Obineche
As the seconds tick towards the
November 16 governorship
election in Anambra State,
major candidates in the race are discernibly mapping out voting blocs. Amongst those whose electoral enclaves are clearly emerging are the standard bearers of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance
(APGA), Chief Willie Obiano,
that of the Labour Party (LP),
Dr Ifeanyi Ubah, that of the
Progressive Peoples Alliance
(PPA), Dr Godwin Ezeemo, and the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC),
Dr Chris Ngige. The confusion
in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with three aspirants laying claim to the ticket has made it difficult to establish a clear picture. However the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has picked Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu.
Based on this parameter, the
voting history of the state, and
other emerging dynamics, the
election is gradually being
narrowed down to a four-horse
race.
Obiano, Ubah, Ezeemo and
Ngige have made tremendous
inroads and impact.
Despite the crippling crisis in
APGA, the party on current
standing is still popular and has indices that may help it retain the seat. As the party in power, the incumbency factor should not be underestimated. The current governor’s
achievements in office, his
government’s commitment to
the mores, ethos and ennobling ideals of the people, especially in crime fighting has
engendered a populist
appreciation.
The popular perception of the
government is one that is
focused, and people -oriented.
National chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, who hails from the state describes Obi’s government “as the best, since the inception of the state”.
A chieftain of the party and
former governorship candidate
in Abia state in the 2011
elections, Ochiagha Reagan
Ufomba says “It is very close to
the people and understands
their needs, despite criticisms
from the opposition”.
•POSSIBLE VOTING TREND
The central senatorial zone may turn out to be a “Switch Zone”.
It is about the most heavily
populated zone in the state. The controversial 2006 population figures estimates the population of the zone to be over 1.6 million people. It is the zone of the sitting governor, Obi ,the National Chairman of the Party,
Chief Victor Umeh, and the
Deputy governorship candidate, Dr Nkem Okeke. Going by previous elections in the state, voters apathy is not very high.
Indeed, it was said to have
provided over half of the
winning votes for Obi in both
the 2003 and 2010 elections.
The very heavily populated
areas like Agulu, Enugwu Ukwu and towns in Awka North and South Local Government Areas (L.G.A), which always vote enbloc are expected to deliver huge votes to the APGA ticket.
This domino pattern of voting
has a remarkable tendency of
making it a battleground for
campaigns. The combined
weight of Obi, Umeh, and
Okeke in the zone will snuff-out Ngige of the APC who is also from the zone.
In Anambra North, which has
the toga of the unofficial
anointed zone to produce the
governor, sentiments are high
amongst the voting populace.
The people in the area see this
election as the best opportunity
for one of their sons to rule the
state for the first time.
Consciously, some of the parties took the ticket to the Zone. In this web is the APGA candidate Obiano This zone also has the distinguishing asset of harbouring riverine
communities. These
communities usually turn out to be battlegrounds and votes
switching enclaves in crucial
elections owing to the difficult
terrains that curtail accessibility to all.
•THE ELITE FACTOR
Anambra state thrives on
elitism. The elite corps in the
state is equally intimidating and has a bandwagon effect on the proletariat class during
elections. The south and central zones take over 75% of the elite in the state. Today, the elite in the state believe that Obi has done well. In an uncanny manner, Obi has pandered to their taste and interests especially on road construction and education.
Ipso facto, it follows that given
the background and intellect of
Obiano and Okeke, their
interests are secured.
•RELIGION
Catholicism is strong in the
zone as in the south and
definitely plays a defining role
in the voting pattern. Obi,
Umeh, Okeke, Obiano are all
Catholics, Ngige is also a
catholic. Catholics are said to be more numerous in the state.
Core values Despite its unending crisis, APGA is still perceived by the vast majority of the populace as the heart and soul of the Igbo man. Although its leader and
Igbo icon Chief Chukwuemeka
Odimegwu Ojukwu is dead, his
memory, beliefs and image will
surely stand in the gap in the
voting process.
•RHETORICS
While Obiano and APGA are
running high on several fronts,
Ubah of the LP has tenaciously
developed a high voters base
through philanthropy and
vigorous campaigns. He is
spared of the siege syndrome
imminent in most of the parties.
While other candidates are busy sorting out themselves from all forms of crises, Ubah has engaged in grassroots
mobilization and enthralling
outreach. Till date, he is the
only one that has formally
flagged-off his campaign and
has since taken the battle to the wards and local governments.
His campaign flag-off in his
stronghold of Nnewi in the
south senatorial zone a
forthnight ago was tumultuous.
If that is anything to go by, then the other contenders must have to sit up.
In the south where Ubah and
Ezeemo come from, there is a
perceptive sophisticated voting
bloc. They read the lips, and see beneath the veneer. Their
persuasions are different from
the normal rhetoric. This is the
home zone of the legendary
Ojukwu.
Ezeemo equally soars high in
this zone based on his pedigree
and philanthropy. The south is
clearly a battleground for all the leading contenders.
November 16 Recently, some politicians, especially those from the PDP hatched a plot to situate the choice of election date of November 16, by the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as a grand design to neutralise the late Ojukwu’s popularity with that of Nigeria’s first president and political colossus, the late Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe (Zik). He was born on November 16, 1904.
This sentiment, which at best
could be a coincidence has been made a strategic campaign issue. Pitching the great Zik and the legendary Ojukwu has been
a favourite past time of
politicians since 1983, when the latter returned from exile in
Cote’divoire. Zik is from the
North, where a good percentage of the population are not given to “Igbo sentiments”.
A high voters bandwagon
stimuli is likely.
Some biographical sketches
•OBIANO: He is a distinguished
banker and technocrat, proven
public policy leader on
economic development,
financial accountability and
human resource development in the state and Nigeria. WMO
(Willie Maduabuchi Obiano)
leads with the combination of
hardwork, clarity, team spirit
and integrity.
His banking career began in
1981 at First Bank Nigeria
Plc..He moved to Texaco Nig
Plc as lead accountant
specializing in bunkering, lube-
bending and refinery audits.
Promoted four times in his 8 ½ years at Texaco he left as the Chief internal auditor. He
joined Fidelity bank in 1991 as
head of audit. He rose to
become executive director in
2003. He was the John F.
Kennedy Essay winner (1974) at CKC Onitsha.
He is a strong catholic and
belongs to many groups within
the church.
•VISION: For Anambra state to
become the first choice
investment destination and a
hub for industrialization and
commercial activities. His
economic agenda is embedded
on his mission to create a
socially stable business friendly
environment that will attract
both indigenes and foreigners to seek wealth creating
opportunities in Anambra state.
•UBAH: Though new on the
terrain,the Labour Party
candidate has notched
unprecedented advances. He is
from Nnewi, the hometown of
the late Ojukwu. His structures
in the state for now are the best
and well co-ordinated. His
choice of the L.P which is the
party of the working masses is
an edge.
•CAMPAIGN SLANT:
Inclusiveness and liberation
Philosophy: Pragmatic
development. He appeals more
to the youths and women who
constitute the core of the voting
populace. An estimated 70,000
people were at his campaign
flag-off, which evinced political
strength. He is the only one that
has publicly exposed his
manifesto, containing his action
plan to transform the state.
He is the only one with
television commercials and
radio jingles running in major
stations. This shows
seriousness. He has done
extensive road shows. In his
speech at the flag-off campaign,
he promised to create 40,000
jobs within 100 days. On
business which the state is
noted for, he pledged:“my
government will establish the
Anambra state development
agency to provide advisory,
financial and logistic support to
our youth apprentices to start
their own individual enterprises
after acquiring the necessary
trading skills from their
business masters.
On transparency and probity,
he pledged to publish audited
accounts of the state every three
months.
•NGIGE
Highly cerebral and populist. A
medical doctor by profession.
He is firmly rooted in the
politics of the state and has
contested every governorship
election since 2003. He is from
Alor in the densely populated
south.
•CAMPAIGN SLANT: Re-enactment
of his past legacies as governor
of the state.
•PHILOSOPHY: Welfarist
•EZEEMO
From relative obscurity, he has
steadily marched to the centre
stage of prominence. He has
built a strong political base
especially in the churches in the
state. As they say, religion is the
opium of the masses. He is at
home with the elite as he is with
the masses.
CAMPAIGN THRUST: Re-
invigoration of the objectives of
the creation of the state.
Philosophy: Kinship values.
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Celebrities › Re: Jim Iyke Tweets About His Deliverance by gratiaeo(m): 11:53am On Sep 30, 2013
I would have like to say ETT but mukina2 may think other wise. Anyway na them sabi

Politics › Re: Anambra Guber: "I Am An Ijele (A Big Masquerade)" by gratiaeo(m): 10:56am On Sep 30, 2013
Imagine human being compelling Enugu with Anambra State.
Apart from few kilometer in Enugu state capital where else do you see development in Enugu state?
The easiest states to govern in the east is Enugu and Imo, just paint their capitals and you see them stupiditly and mumudly licking your a'ss
Politics › Re: Anambra Guber: "I Am An Ijele (A Big Masquerade)" by gratiaeo(m): 8:36am On Sep 30, 2013
For those calling him novice in political environs, Fashola was neither known nor heard before he became Lagos state governor
Politics › Re: Anambra Guber: "I Am An Ijele (A Big Masquerade)" by gratiaeo(m): 8:30am On Sep 30, 2013
Odenigbo Aroli: Guy,I went to an Umuoji facebook page and it seeems like everybody is rooting for Ngige and that got me scared. I think Ngige will do well in Idenmili but Obiano will triumph,however,it will be a tight game.
Obiano really have an impressive blueprint and I pray that God will see him through. I can't wait for Nov. 16th.

I can't wait for the said debate,that's if Ngige will not chicken out.
Ngige to attend debate? You never kn that dude, he has nothing to offer than criticism and blackmail

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