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The National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams, said his group is opposed to a former Lagos Governor, Bola Tinubu and his party, the All Progressives Congress, because Mr. Tinubu instructed governors of the South-West states not to deal with or empower the OPC. Mr. Adams said this at a press conference in Lagos on Tuesday in reaction to reports that his organization plans to disrupt the forthcoming general elections. He said while Mr. Tinubu plotted to destroy the OPC by denying it of government patronage, President Goodluck Jonathan has been magnanimous, awarding pipeline protection contracts to leaders of the organisation and other militants across the country. “Deliberately Tinubu instructed all the governors (South-west governors) don’t work with OPC, don’t empower OPC, don’t associate
yourself with OPC,” Mr. Adams said. “Ask our people from the south west, if you threat us very well, why should we get an opportunity from your enemy? If you gave us jobs, if you empower us, we would turn down the offer from the federal government. Because you neglected us, you don’t want the organization to exist anymore. Mr Adams admitted that he, Frederick Faseun, and another militant leader from Ondo state were given multi billion naira contracts to protect pipelines, saying as Nigerians they have a right to share from the nation’s commonwealth. He said, “They alleged that some ethnic militia
collected nine billion, what I know is that President Goodluck Jonathan gave us a contract to protect pipeline and in that pipeline contract, the analysis is that Nigeria is losing 1.3 trillion naira every year to vandals. And when you see how much they will pay us for a year, in six zones- we have three zones in south west, three in South-South. I have only one in South-West; Dr. Fasheun has one and another guy in Ondo has one. “The entire money NNPC will spend for us to protect the pipeline is not up to four billion for the six zones. You know what happened, they intentionally wrote the propaganda to affect the rally of last Monday, and at the same time,
they haven’t given us a dime for the contract. President Jonathan has not given us money; we are just planning on how to start the job now. You cannot get money, it’s not a contract of buying something. “As a Nigerian, we have a right to share from the commonwealth and that does not mean they have induced us. Tinubu is the chairman of OandO, and it’s an oil company and hardly will you see any governor in Nigeria that does not have interest in oil business. Hardly will you see any that minister does not have interest in oil business. Look, the south-south has been benefiting from the Amnesty package from the past four or five years. We have never benefited from it.” The OPC leader described the All Progressive Congress as a party that strives on propaganda. The OPC leader said his organisation wants the country to move forward and has decided to support the re-election bid of President Jonathan. “We are not saying because we are supporting President Jonathan, we should be an enemy of other political parties. When you watch carefully, you will realize that nothing less than 23 political parties partially support President Goodluck Jonathan, so we are not here to harm any other political party,” he said. Speaking on the protest by the OPC for the removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission’s chair, Attahiru Jega, which many
Nigerians, particularly the All Progressive Congress termed a violent protest, Mr. Adams described the APC as a party that thrives on propaganda. “We deliberately kept quiet for one week to make sure that they lied to the extent that we would come out to tell the world that 85 per cent information coming from the APC is fallacy. “You can’t win an election based on fallacy or propaganda and they have used their strength to concentrate on CCN protest rather than to go from house to house to campaign. “If you watched newspapers, you will see some
parasites signing different press releases that Gani Adams should resign, you will see Shina Akinpelu, and then you see Monsuru Akande again, so you see the level of propaganda? We even investigated; the second press release was released from the state (Lagos) secretariat in Acme, coordinated by Ajomale. Why are they doing that? He maintained that the protest was not against Mr. Tinubu or the APC. “We did not protest against Tinubu or APC. Why are they supporting the wrongdoing of Jega? I think most of them are product of free and fair election of 1993, so we should upgrade the conduct of our election and what happened yesterday has justified our protest. “I don’t see why you should deny 19 per cent which is 12 million registered voters of their right to enfranchise. And if you recall, in the June 12, 1993 presidential election, the number of Nigerians who made the difference for MKO Abiola was 14 million. By the time you
deny 12 million people the chance to exercise their right, certain signal is coming, but I’m appealing to Nigerians, they should not allow Jega to provoke them. Let us accept the faith but let the history run against Jega.” OPC not a threat to election Mr. Adams said his group is not a threat to the coming elections and was not sponsored by President Jonathan. “Well, we have witnessed 1999 election, we didn’t get involved in violence, we witnessed the 2003, we didn’t disrupt the election, 2007 same thing happened, 2011 same thing happened, why should we disrupt election,. “We challenge them, let them take the pictures to the police to investigate and identify those who destroyed that billboard. The picture that was first sent to the internet was a picture of an event held on eighth of December by Dr. Fredrick Fasheun. So I’m appealing to concentrate on how to win the election and the heart of the electorate and not to be concentrating to destroy the character of anybody who supports President Goodluck Jonathan “We have been funding our organization before election; you will realize that we have not less than 25 programs in a year. Who is funding those programs? Why should they insinuate that anything that comes from us because of our belief to support President Jonathan that it’s because of money?”

www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/179053-while-tinubu-starved-us-jonathan-gave-us-multibillion-naira-pipeline-contracts-gani-adams.html

Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose’s eldest
brother, Segun, has appealed to the governor
to stop embarrassing the family. He said their father was a gentle pastor, who
built and sustained a good name for the
family, before joining his ancestors. The elder Fayose spoke with our reporters in
Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. He said rather than sustain the good name
which he inherited, the governor has been
embarrassing other Fayoses with the way he
insults elders like former President Olusegun
Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. Segun, who is a United Kingdom-based
accountant, said the family cherished the
name it inherited from its late patriarch. Emphasising that their father died with
contentment, the elder Fayose said the family
was known in Ekiti for sound character found
in every omoluabi. He described Chief Obasanjo as Ayo Fayose’s
benefactor. Segun said: “It is a pity Nigerians are
celebrating criminals. I am angry with
Nigerians for electing somebody like Ayodele
as governor. My children cannot come to
Nigeria because of the terrible situation of our
country. “I don’t have a relationship with any of our
leaders because of their criminality and
anybody who says I collected money from the
opposition should step forward to challenge
me. Ekiti and Nigeria are bigger than Fayose’s
name and both names should be protected. “I don’t want anything from anybody, but Ayo
should stop insulting and abusing my father’s
name. As a result of Fayose’s attitude, many
people believe the Fayose family is rude but it
is far from the truth. “I have spoken to him many times, but he
refused to listen. Buhari and Obasanjo are old
enough to be his father and I don’t know why
he should be insulting them. “I am always sad with the situation of this
country. Ayo’s arrogance is one of the reasons
I said people should not vote for him prior to
the Ekiti governorship election. If all I am
saying is not true, my six children should die
and I should end up in shame. “Most of us abroad are not happy with the
situation of Nigeria. We are sad. When people
call me from Ekiti to complain about Ayo, I tell
them to forgive the family. People should not
see Ayo as an ambassador of our family.”

thenationonlineng.net/new/fayose-embarrassing-our-family-says-brother/

falconey:
hmmmm yeah for the average looking guys.......

Never heard the goodlooking ones talk about phobia to approach now and then. That's what brought this question, besides some guys have the sweet mouth kind of thing.

Even if a girl doesn't want to date them she will respond due to their ability to know what to say and how to say.

bright007:
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if my B.Sc is as common as pure water, tell the herdsman to go and get his. Remember what OBJ did a couple of years back? He knew he needed to be educated to a certain level and quickly made the move and today he is a graduate of NOUN and can think and reason better than he could before.

and for your last statement, pls hold it. I am far far more educated than your cettificateless dictator who was only opportune to rule Nigeria during the military era when all you needed was to become a senior officer in the Nigerian army. pls tell him I can help him with O'level tutorials so that he can atleast talk where secondary school graduates are talking.

bright007:
i am a graduate of Uniben and i know the value of education. Hence i cannot vote for an illiterate who has refused to come out and tell me how he is going to solve Nigeria's problem if elected?

preacherz:
do U know GMB is a stunch advocate of Muslims to vote 4 Muslims...and here u are a christain making so much noise of u and ya family voting 4 GMB.........poor

The All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari said he refused to remove subsidies on petrol and devalue the naira when he was head of state because it would destroy the economy.

Buhari, who spoke during a town hall meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, said he refused the bidding of the world super powers to save the country.
He said the nation has lost greatly from the devaluation of the currency in terms of growing the economy and creating employment for the youth as employers who had to take bank loans to import raw materials and machines are running their industries at a loss.

‎"When we came into power in December 1983, we were approached by the world power at some stage to devalue the naira, remove petroleum subsidy and remove subsidy on flour, but we refused," he said.
He explained that "the issue was that if we get plenty of naira, what are we going to do with it? We even stopped farming and the only thing we get money from them was oil and that was being paid in dollars."

He said "if you have excess of groundnut, cocoa, cotton or palm oil, you sell it in foreign exchange. If you devalue the currency, the naira will be affected and Nigerians will not get value for their goods and services."

The APC flag bearer said "I was told to remove subsidy on petroleum and because I had the honour of being in charge of petroleum for three and half years, I don't know in terms of Nigeria, who is subsidising who."

"To the best of my knowledge then, the Nigerian petrol and Nigerian capital was used to develop the refineries up to the time I was there. We built the refineries from one of 50,000 bpd to four of 450,000 bpd, laid pipelines of over 3000 kilometres, built more than 20 depots with all Nigerian money," he said.

He added that no money was borrowed to develop the infrastructure in the oil sector.

snapshot:
yes KD,any party that will underate the PDP in KD will have itself to blame,and PDP is the party to beat in Kogi.

snapshot:
i have read all ur posts and i must commend u for being analytic in urr approach to this discourse.I must also say that i love the kind of opposition that we have now,this is the kind of opposition we need to turn things around for Nigeria,it will do us alot of good to have a strong
opposition be PDP or APC.Now my rooting for GEJ if as a result of my penetrating observation of how i think Nigerians will vote.GEJ will win the entire SE and SS excluding Edo which GMB will show an impressive showing.In the SW GEJ will win at least 3 states and make a great showing in Lag considering the non Yorubas and a good number of the yorubas.In NC Kogi,Nasarawa,Benue,Niger,Plateau.For the recods GEJ won Nasarawa in 2011 not GMB. FCT for GEJ.the PDP is likely going to win at least 3 states in NE and NW combined which from my calculations will be Jigawa,Taraba and Adamawa.pdp will split the vote in Kaduna and other places in the north.From all permutations GEJ has an edge over GMB.

HsLBroker:
You should back up your stories with link next time

[color=#000000] My Covenant With Nigerians Dear Compatriots,
In the past few months that I have traveled
round this country on campaigns, I have
experienced the sheer beauty of our diversity.
From Port Harcourt to Kano, from Abeokuta to
Gusau, I experienced first-hand the daily sufferings and struggles of our people. I also
experienced the overwhelming desire of our
people for change.
When I arrived in Port Harcourt on the 5th of
January to start my campaigns, I was met by
our teeming supporters, who stayed till late in the evening to welcome us. Among them were
many young men and women, who in the few
minutes that I shared with them at the airport,
made me to reflect on what kind of future
awaits them in our country.
The gestures of 90-year-old Hajia Fadimatu Mai Talle Tara from Kebbi State and 9-years-
old Nicole Eniiyi Benson from Lagos State, who
donated their life-savings to my campaign,
reflect the overwhelming desire of our people
for change. In their gestures, I perceived a
longing for the days when honour, national pride and dignity of labour were the
fundamental social principles that governed
our country. As I encountered millions of our
youths, who sometimes run for hours in front
of my car and hanging precariously on our
campaign vehicles at our state rallies, I also pondered the enormity of the task ahead. How
do we give jobs to our youth? How do we
reform our economy and make it work for
every Nigerian?
I know however, that what we require to
revamp our economy and rebuild our country is our ability to galvanize all our citizens to
believe once again in their government, in
their country and especially, to believe in
themselves. This can only happen if we are
able to rebuild the trust and belief that our
people used to have in government, and indeed, in our nation. The leadership that I will
provide will be built on this critical awareness.
I intend to lead with integrity and honour and
commit myself totally to everything that is of
concern to our people: security, employment,
health, education, good governance and others. This Covenant is to outline my agenda for
Nigeria and provide a bird’s eye view of how
we intend to bring about the change that our
country needs and deserves. This Covenant is
derived from the manifesto of my party, the
All Progressives Congress (APC). It however, represents my pledge to you all when I
become your President.
I have no doubt that God being on our side,
with the abiding support of all Nigerians, we
shall all witness the great change that we
desire and achieve the Nigeria of our dream. Thank you Gen. Muhammadu BUHARI (Rtd.), GCFR
Presidential Candidate, APC[/color]

saharareporters.com/2015/03/16/plan-change-buhari-announces-‘covenant-nigerians’

snapshot:
i must say even though we are on different side of the divide i admire ur maturity and language tone,but the southwest and north central will decide the winner in this election and GEJ ha< edge over GMB in the north central and the votes in the south west will be divided.GEJ will win about 23 states included FCT.this is based on empirical findings.

snapshot:
i must say even though we are on different side of the divide i admire ur maturity and language tone,but the southwest and north central will decide the winner in this election and GEJ ha< edge over GMB in the north central and the votes in the south west will be divided.GEJ will win about 23 states included FCT.this is based on empirical findings.

snapshot:
i must say even though we are on different side of the divide i admire ur maturity and language tone,but the southwest and north central will decide the winner in this election and GEJ ha< edge over GMB in the north central and the votes in the south west will be divided.GEJ will win about 23 states included FCT.this is based on empirical findings.

snapshot:
i must say even though we are on different side of the divide i admire ur maturity and language tone,but the southwest and north central will decide the winner in this election and GEJ ha< edge over GMB in the north central and the votes in the south west will be divided.GEJ will win about 23 states included FCT.this is based on empirical findings.

snapshot:
u sit down somewhere in ur neighborhood and u think u are doing survey.For ur information
Nigeria is bigger than nairaland and ur street.From all calculations PDP will beat APC hands down.

snapshot:
it will take rigging of unprecedented dimension for APC to win in the presidential elections,because Apc does not have what it takes to win.

Javanian:
Uniben? Which department? And were you allowed to drop only final year courses? What about 200 and 300? Also, how did you facilitate the dropping of courses?

Danny4show:
would you drop your your final year project too? cos don't understand you oo..