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sanky346:
The biggest beneficiary in the merger is the CPC bloc. The ACN block ain't doing badly do. The PDP block hijacked the Senate President and House of Representatives Speakership and that is the reason for Amaechi's current travail. The Okorocha's APGA bloc didn't bring much to the table so they shouldn't expect much. The APC should have document their power sharing formular prior to the general election. It's unfair on Buhari to ride to power on the general strength of all the power blocs and now resort to rewarding only his CPC block.

my sentiment exactly.

#100wasteddays

We PDP online members need barcanista's name on that list.

Jeo Igbokwe is well known fool

This one na una own cup of tea

My fear is that northerners will never accept this type of appointment if happened that the president is from south.

POWEROFPEACE:
You need to understand President Buhari. The man is discipline and he is nowhere near sentiment. He is doing what is right for the country and everyone can see that except those who will not want to say the truth. The President is an example of a leader who has the interest of the people at heart. May God continue to guide him.

Stop deceiving urself

Buhari the useless certificateless general could not even hide his hatred to Igbo.
Buhari achievement so far in the southeast
(1) relocation of BH inmates to Ekwulobia
(2) cancellation of second niger bridge project

#wasted100days

Buhari body language

With Buhari body language i don't think paying workers salary will be difficult

Sometimes, it feels shameful to see Yorubas and Igbos going at each other for no reasons here. It makes me uncomfortable most times but when I hear their tribalistic leaders publicly unleashed their venoms against Igbos which feed into the fabrics of their bigotry commoners that spread such hate messages like wide fire. That alone comfirms their inferiority complex to Igbos, which breeds jealousness, hatred and foolishness. Igbos are republic by nature and culture. They breath hardwork and it's results. So he can not call buhari out without Igbo connotations. Coward moves!

By Dapo Akinrefon
MR Shehu Bankole-Hameed is a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State and also an author. In this interview, he reviews the nearly three month stewardship of President Muhammadu Buhari. Excerpts:
President Muhammadu Buhari has been dubbed ‘baba go-slow’ by his critics over perceived failure to hit the ground running? Do you agree with this notion?
I’m not sure that the slogan ‘baba go slow ‘ is appropriate; in the context of what the winner of the last election and indeed the entire economy has endured, any attempt to ‘ hit the ground running ‘, by pronouncements of political appointees without due diligence will amount to political blunder. It is fair to be patient and persevere in order to gain eventually.

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Do you think the president has been marginalising other zones of the country in terms of appointments?
If I’m to be fair to the President, he has been fair to the entire Northern block; noting that a huge chunk of his votes came from that part of the country, now he seems to have bent backwards to accommodate the Igbos who not only did not vote for him, they openly castigated him during the electioneering campaign. The Southwest in my mind is being offered the short end of the stick.Judging by the balance of appointments so far, I think the southwest has been shortchanged.
Part of the president’s campaign promises was to fight corruption, but many have the impression that the war is selective, do you agree with this?
This question is in itself hilarious; who is complaining about the fight against corruption if not those in PDP. The fight against corruption by this administration has not even started. All that is being done right now as I see it is investigation and the perception that such actions are aimed at a reasonable number of people from the Igbo stock is understandable. They formed the bulk of political appointees of Jonathan and also formed the largest in number and also by percentage the top hierarchy of permanent secretaries and directors of parastatals in the civil service. It is thus logical to expect the fall out of such a house cleaning exercise to impact this group severely.
You are a close ally of two former governors of Lagos State, (Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola), but there seems to be a cold war between them. What do you think is responsible?
Really many different versions of a supposed cold war are being touted in the press. However, I think Asiwaju recognizes the superlative qualities of Fashola and likewise, Fashola does accept like the rest of us in APC that Asiwaju is a national leader of great worth; none of them has ever admitted to me or anyone in private or public of a strained relationship.
But we know how even within family members and friends, there are differences; I think the elders in the party are up to the task of ironing out any misconception. As to what might be responsible for the perceived cold war, one has to look to the press and opposition in order to understand the whole story.




www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/appointment-s-west-is-being-shortchanged-bankole-hameed/

Buhari body language in action

I don tire 4 this media government

Buhari should probe mayweather's wealth

Never knew udeneukwenu is this stupid

If you had like Oyo been taking more than N4.2billion and now they are taking less than N2billion, how are you going to make up for the shortfall and these are states where internally generated revenue are almost non existence.

I'm hearing this for the first time! So Osun and Oyo state are this poor and wretched but some niggas will make us believe that Osun IGR is bigger than entire SE

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saw this on Facebook by a Yoruba guy

By Ebere Wabara

THERE is no doubt whatsoever that the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency was wasted on a platter by all ramifications. It is also evidential that his regime was the most corrupt, as his ministers and subservient acolytes coordinated a bazaar of our national patrimony in a way that paled into insignificance the malfeasance of those before and after him in office.

I had thought that after God saved Chief Obasanjo from the jaws of death in the hands of the late General Sani Abacha shortly before his celebrated death, he would thenceforth live a life of gratitude to God and be at peace with humanity. In contradistinction, the rustic Ota farmer has been carrying on as if other people were villains and he a symbol of sainthood!

In fact, there is nothing to suggest the personage of a former Head of State or the hallmarks of leadership. This is why the governor of Ekiti State Ayo Fayase takes delight in endlessly traducing Chief Obasanjo despite the evolutionary and hallowed tradition of Yoruba land, which accentuates respect for responsible elders (not T. A. Orji’s kind of “Abia Elders” recruited solely to demonise, demystify and calumniate the former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Kalu by his ungrateful and amnesic successor in office). Respect begets respect. When a nonagerian behaves like a kindergartner, respect from younger ones takes a flight. This aptly captures the case of Chief Obasanjo and lucidly explains why the boyishness of a Fayose will swim in rascally indecorum, to my appreciative contradiction.

Recently, the former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu, who, by the way, miscalculatively, joined to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) instead of remaining in the All Progressives Congress (APC), declared that Obasanjo used him to witch-hunt his political adversaries, Even without this belated confessional statement, most Nigerians knew that EFCC metamorphosed from being a dispassionate anti-graft agency to a political tool of vendetta in the vicious hand of Chief Obasanjo. What amazes me most in the Ribadu revelation is that he could allow himself to be so used by a scoundrel. Before this self-confession, Ribadu had hinted on this secret at the public presentation of a book written by Prof. Olatunji Dare in honour of the late Chief M. K. O. Abiola at the Muson Centre in Lagos sometime ago. He made a specific reference to one of Obasanjo’s targets and billionaire national leader of the APC, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Baba Oba of Ikorodu, who was present on the occasion.

While in government and power, Chief Obasanjo unethically summoned the country’s topmost billionaires to contribute to the construction of his private library, where he would retire to if his vaulting third-term ambition predictably crashes! Concerned Nigerians raised eyebrows over this behemoth’s impropriety, but to no avail as usual. The abuse of position went on and at the end of the day billions of naira hit the acount of baba. As far as he was concerned, there was nothing wrong, absolutely, with the official travesty. That is the man for you: kettle that calls pot black.

With regard to the deployment of the EFCC in haunting political foes, the list is interminably long. I cannot forget some of the prominent victims like the 74-year-old former Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (GCFR), the former vice-president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Globacom proprietor, Dr, Mike Adenuga (GCON), Dr. Kalu, former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanafe Ibori, his Bayelsa counterpart, Chief JSP Alamaeyeseigha. What was their offence? Simply their profound criticisms of burgeoning misrule and vehement opposition to the third-term inebriacy of Baba no regret! Indeed, of all the victims of this glaring abuse of mandate, Dr. Kalu was the most affected and is still being embarrassed, harassed and haunted/hunted by oppositional deviants over that clearly vindictive incident of unprecedentedness.

In party politics, the likes of the late Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur— both former national chairmen of the PDP — among numerous others will have a bitter story to tell of their unforgettable encounter with the Ota farmer.

The regime of Chief Obasanjo will remain in the country’s annals as probably the most corrupt and nonchalantly retrogressive. Meanwhile, the impression was created that the government was the best thing to have happened in Nigeria! Presently, I will mention some of the perfidious and odious underpinings of that kleptomaniac tenure. Chief Obasanjo’s involvement in the Halliburton scandal is shrouded in contrived dubiosity and technical duplicity such that most people have lost track of events in the transnational fraud. Foreign accomplices in this swindle have all been sent to the gaol overseas. Undisclosed mismanagement of the country’s oil and gas as the President/Petroleum Minister, the National Stadium construction in Abuja, billions of naira spent on non-rehabilitation of federal roads, COJA 2003, CHOGM scam, and other innumerable infractions that were never addressed.

Chief Obasanjo’s sanctimonious posturings befuddle me to no end. How can a man with a questionable past be the one dictating the code of conduct for others? What pedigree qualifies him for such a sterling role? The mercurial Ota farmer’s highly controversial antcedents are enough to compel him to taciturnity in dignified self-respect. All former distinguished leaders have gloriously carried on to the applause of the public in contradistincton to a life of holistic nuisance, vulgarity and cantekerousness.

From time to time, Chief Obasanjo indulges in sterile preachments about leadership trajectories and benchmarks. Such pontifications and nauseating holier-than-thou attitudinal disposition has degenerated to a periodic feature of Baba Iyabo so much so that it has become an exercise in self-delusion. I have never seen thi kind of self-immolation that explicates one’s moral bankruptcy. If a man sleeps with his son’s wife, he should have some scruples coming to the public sphere to haul attacks on men that could be said to be good men, comparatively speaking. You cannot have skeletons in your closet and yet be hostilely rationalising about living in glass houses and be throwing stones. If you use one finger to point at another person, the remaining fingers will point at you. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands. Justice is not for perverts or those who are morally bankrupt.

You may distinguish in the military in Nigeria not out of cerebral excellence, but a combination of other extraneous factor. In civilised nations, soldiers rise because of their intellectual ization of service and demonstration of good character—not just years of long service or betrayal of colleagues in one form or another. Just like the university community, there are professors and there are professors. So, there are also Generals by providence, by circumstance, by the elementals of luck! Not all Generals should gloat, for when the chips are down we know the officers who can enter the evil forest.

There is nothing confirmatory of the life of impeccability, which Chief Obasanjo bullishly presents. If I were Obasanjo, I would just try to be a political leader, be at peace with as many men as possible and continuously give thanks to God for sparing my life for the rest of my existence here. Engaging everyone in combative and loquacious battles over mostly worthless issues will not worth my time, especially in recognition of my adjacency to translation.

In a recent interview with Premium Times, Chief Obasanjo uncharitably averred that Nigerian media professionals were essentially corrupt (with a few exceptions). His words: “Or Reuben Abati, the one who said ‘ehhnn, he too wants to build a house.’ Can anybody say that to me and you think I will have regard for him? Or for the profession he claims to belong? And you know it. You know it. That you can write anything in any paper and if the price is right, it will be published.” What kind of generalisation is this? There are bad eggs in every profession. For Obasanjo to make it look as if every journalist has a price tag is most unfortunate. In any case, which segment of the society is not as bad as journalists if not worse? No doubt, some colleagues of mine are not credible, but that does not call for blanket condemnation of the profession. For purposes of argument, which segment of the society is not corrupt? Why would Chief Obasanjo be mentioning names of specific journalists he suspects are corrupt? Does he have any proof of their corruption? So, if a journalist says he, too, needs to build a house it becomes a synonym for corruption?

Whenever I recollect the invasion of the residence of Dr. Adenuga on Victoria Island by the EFCC in the twilight of the Obasanjo years, I get bemused. At the funeral of Dr. Adenuga’s mother, Chief Obasanjo attended and participated very well in the unprecedented passage rites of the Adenuga matriarch in the history of Nigeria. Shortly thereafter, things fell apart. What was the issue? Dr. Adenuga did not support the third-term fiasco and was perceived to be closer to Alhaji Atiku who, at that point, was and remains one of Baba’s worst enemies. If you are a bosom friend of my enemy the centre cannot hold for us. In the circumstance, the EFCC was let loose like wild cannon on blistering chase of Dr. Adenuga! If a person of that esteemed personage could be so ambushed at the instance of his erstwhile egbon (elder brother) of chumminess, then who is any other person! The Otta farmer has great contempt for relationships and utter disregard for people’s sensitivities and sensibilities. In the same unfortunate vein, experiences do not matter to him as he amnesically and senilely lives for the moment. If not for dignified royal intervention of a first-class Oba in the Obasanjo-Adenuga fleeting tiff, I cannot contemplate the humiliation that would trailed the greatest philanthropist of our time.

The more I think about this man the more I get perplexed because of the contradictions in his behavioural inclinations that border on antagonism, pugnacity and haughtiness. I do not know if Chief Obasanjo’s obstreperousness is a function of obsolescence. If not, why is everyone bad in his estimation? He appears to be the only good man on earth! Every other person is a thief, criminal, adulterer (eh?), et al. He does not even have respect for the dead. This explains why he regards the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo as a sectional leader and not a pan-Yoruba leader.

I used to think that age confers some measure of candour, respectability and maturity on people. In the case of Baba, the older he becomes, the more garrulous, restive and restless he becomes! I am yet to see anyone in the good books of this Owu chief. Is it that the man is naturally complex, difficult and extrapolatively fastidious? It cannot be age because there are even older people whose carriage and interpersonal relationship profile is such that templates leadership. No man should be slavish to age or encumbered by senility lest he becomes a public nuisance.

From Chief Obasanjo’s periodic outbursts, mercurial tantrums and blanket condemnation of everyone who comes his way, I have the conviction that Baba may be suffering from aggravated hallucination of knowledge and wisdom circumscription, which results in incurable affliction of the bucchal cavity.

Whoever loves this erstwhile civilian dictator should plead with him to revolutionize his interpersonal relationships. He has unnecessarily ruffled many feathers and is not relenting on kicking up more dust and stepping on as many toes as possible! With OBJ, you do not need another foe. I disagree with Dr. Kalu that Chief Obasanjo is merely a clown/jester. Baba is an inimical embodiment of unrivaled vindictiveness, indecorum, clownishness, viciousness, brazenness and gerontocratic retardation.

Someone should volunteer to end this grandeur of self-delusion and self-deception by Baba. Nigerians have had and heard enough of him! A country’s former leader is not just any other citizen: there are basic expectations of responsibility and comportment—shorn of adult rascality!

www.sunnewsonline.com/new/obasanjos-chronic-self-delusion/

Hmmmmm

Junaid almajiri failed doctor should be reminded that there are six jeo-political zone in Nigeria and kachikwu happen to be from south south

Nice one

Propaganda

UNN

It's high time. Ogun state needs total cleaning

From Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta

Disturbed by the rising cases of ritualism in Ogun State, the Commissioner of Police, Abdulmajid Ali, yesterday ordered his men to shoot on sight any suspect.
He gave this order while parading 23 suspected cultists, kidnappers, armed robbers and ritualists at the command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.
Ali said the crime rate had become alarming, adding that it had become imperative for all stakeholders to wake up to their responsibilities and make the state free from the nefarious activities of criminals.
Ali said, “criminal activities are becoming alarming everyday in the state and drastic action has to be taken. Ritualists’ are killing people. We won’t tolerate that. When you see them in action, they should shoot on sight. When you see them perpetrating the act, bring them down. Once you find any policeman that is not discharging his duty correctly, please report such.
The CP also disclosed that a suspect had been arraigned over the killing of 85-year-old market leader in Ijebu-Ode, Alhaja Elewuju, promising that a suspect who kidnapped a 20-month-old boy, Emmanuel Ogundele, about 12 days ago at the christening of a baby in Abeokuta, would soon be arrested.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/ogun-cp-orders-ritualists-to-be-shot-on-sight/

Former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General Kenneth Minimah has blamed the escalation of Boko Haram terrorism on its use to advance sectional, tribal, religious and political interests.
Minimah made the allegation in his valedictory speech during a pulling out parade in his honour at the Army Headquarters Garrison, Mogadishu Cantonment Abuja.
“perhaps if we had all stood against the terrorists at the onset through public condemnation of their activities and active collaboration with the military to confront them,” Nigeria wouldn't be where it is now, he agued.
“Rather than use it as a tool to advance sectional, tribal, religious and political interests…we must therefore support our government and security forces to tackle the current security challenges,” he stated.
Minimah noted that his appointment came when the nation was going through one of the worse crisis in its history and Boko Haram terrorism reaching unprecedented heights in the country, with the army and security agencies helpless to address the situation.
He added that; “I was confronted with the decay in the Service due to long periods of neglect the army had suffered,” adding that the army needed to harness its capabilities and optimize its capacity to deal with the challenges that bedeviled the country.
Minimah explained that prioritizing efforts to enhance operational readiness improved training, modernization of equipment and enhance welfare inspired and rekindled the fighting spirit back in the troops.
“I am happy to state that the story is different today, and the situation is better than I met it. Today, the country is more secure and stable. The ability of Boko Haram terrorists to confront our security forces in open combat is virtually non-existent,” he stated.
Minimah lamented that for long the nation has toyed with the health and vitality of its military, urging that this is the time to invest in the armed forces by providing the necessary resources and political environment to recruit, train, equip, kit and remunerate its Service men.
He also called on the media not to promote the activities of terrorists over those of security forces or join some foreign adversarial media to castigate or malign troops who sacrifice their lives for the security of the country.
 


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