₦airaland Forum

The great debate – who introduced tribalism into the politics of the South, the Igbo or the Yoruba?

by Femi Fani- Kayode.

”Igbo domination of Nigeria is only a matter of time’ ‘- Charles Onyeama, a prominent igbo lawyer and member of the Central Legislative Council, 1945. (Pg. 204 ”Ethnic Politics In Kenya and Nigeria” by Godfrey Mwakikagile).

”It would appear that the God of Africa has created the Igbo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of ages ….” – Dr Azikiwe, President of the Pan-Igbo Federal Union. (The West African Pilot of July 8, 1949).

The first statement from Charles Onyeama, which was made in 1945, was the first overtly tribal and divisive comment that was made and recorded in the politics of southern Nigeria in our history. That is where and when tribalism in the south actually started. After that comment and as a direct reaction to it, the yoruba established the ”Egbe Omo Oduduwa” to further and protect yoruba interests and after that came the formation of the Action Group in 1948.

The second statement from Zik, which was made in 1949 (and which clearly shows that the great Zik of Africa had forgotten that the NCNC was not an igbo party at the beginning and that it had in fact been established by an upper class and very well educated yoruba man by the name of Sir Herbert Macauly, one of the famous ”Black Victorians” from the Lagos Colony, and who, at his death bed, was gracious enough to hand over the leadership of the party to him even though he was igbo) confirmed that tribalism was here to stay in the south and that ever since that time the igbo had an agenda to dominate others. This sentiment and this unfortunate igbocentric attitude is what cost Zik the Premiership of the Western Region in 1953 when the NCNC narrowly lost to the Action Group.

It is clear from this that if you want to know who started tribalism in southern politics and the politics of the southern protectorate of Nigeria it was not the yoruba or the southern minorities but the igbo. The excesses of the Igbo State Union and their treatment of the southern minorities and the yoruba from 1943 till 1967 was completely unacceptable. The rest of the south were prepared to accept the igbo as equals with open arms but they were not prepared to be politically dominated or conquered by them. Worst still the first coup in the history of Nigeria, which was the Jan 15th 1966 coup d’etat led by Major Ifejuana and Major Kaduna Nzeogwu, was essentially an igbo coup and an igbo grab for power. I say this because 95 per cent of those that took part in it were igbo and 99 per cent of the political and military leaders that were brutally murdered during it’s execution were non-igbo. It was this coup and it’s sheer brutality that led to the even more brutal northern officers counter-coup of July 1966 (in which 300 igbo officers were killed in one night including the igbo Head of State, Gen. Aguiyi-Ironsi, and his yoruba host, the Military Governor of the Western Region, Gen. Adekunle Fajuyi who sought to protect him), the pogrom of igbos in the north (in which over 100,000 igbo civilians were killed in a few weeks) and the Nigerian civil war (in which 2 million Nigerians and Biafrans died).

These are the facts of our history. Live and learn. If you want to know who introduced tribalism into southern politics, it was the igbo. If you want to know who carried out the first coup in our country it was the igbo. Having done the painstaking research over a numberof years these are my findings and this is my conclusion. I will open my wall for a robust discussion and debate on this issue and I will accomodate contributions from even those that are not my fb friends just for this debate. I will accomodate all shades of opinion and contributions from anyone that cares to join in the fray and I want to encourage those that disagree with my findings to state their case. We are all still learning but please take not that any rude or insulting comments will be deleted. This is a historical debate and I would encourage all those that seek to qoute anyone or make any assertions to mention their sources so that we can cross check the facts. Thanks.

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From time immemorial, dishonourable men have thrived in politics by peddling fabricated and concocted lies and half-truths. And while truth and sound principles will eventually outshine falsehood and opportunism, those who deal in such stock record some successes, albeit temporarily, at the expense of the people striving to bring some difference to politics. Sir Winston Churchill was therefore right when he observed that “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on”.

These charlatans and opportunists are champions of the Big Lie theory endorsed and popularized by Adolf Hitler and his chief propagandist, Joseph Goebbels and simplified in Richard Belzer’s book referenced above. This is the strategy now adopted by the PDP apparatchik in their futile attempt to politically lynch Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Their grand plan which is not new is to discredit him and other honourable men in the progressive fold in the belief that if the same big lies are repeated over and over again, people will begin to believe them and their targets will become discredited thereby truncating efforts to wrest power from the clueless and inept PDP politicians.

They adopted this strategy in Ekiti State. They deployed it in Osun State and are now employing it fully as the national elections approach. A manifestation of their desperation is the recent churning out of unsubstantiated allegations both on television and in the social media against Tinubu, Buhari and a host of APC leaders. Of note is that they seem to have gone into overdrive in their circulation of outlandish accusations of inordinate wealth and property acquisition Bola Tinubu. These politicians turned blackmailers who are clearly of the PDP brand are identifiable. They must not be left to roam free and get away with libel and their criminal activities in character assassination. Tinubu and the APC must approach the courts of the land and, with the decorum and formalities afforded by the rules of courts, put them to the strictest proof of these allegations. Because of their cowardice, they work as faceless persons.

However, they have now been uncovered. The Fayoses. Fani Kayodes. Mimikos. Olisa Metu of this world. They have also recruited many into their ranks using slush monies. They go by phony names and acronyms shielding their cowardly sponsors. In the past, these characters made allegations against Tinubu and went ahead to orchestrate his arraignment before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. It is a matter of record that all the charges against Bola Tinubu were quashed by that tribunal. Several other allegations against him remain in the realm of speculative rumour, with no evidence to back them up. In the latest round of falsehood being circulated in some sections of the media, a list of “purported choice properties said to belong to a chieftain of APC is being peddled. Those behind this list do this without regard to whether the properties in the list in fact exist.

Their story admittedly describes them as ‘purported choice properties’, and raise doubts of ownership by stating ‘said to belong’! How irresponsible and how manifestly mischievous! For the records and for the avoidance of doubt, it is clear that these allegations are totally false and baseless and this attempt to play on our people’s collective ignorance and emotion is sad. The ‘Big Lie’ strategy of the propagators of these lies are about to come to an end. Because he who alleges must proof, these attackers must face the law and provide incontrovertible proof. The Tinubu inspired 25-year development plan of Lagos helped lay the foundation for the infrastructural renewal, revenue breakthrough and related reforms in Lagos. No elected governor, past or present today in Nigeria equals the vision, vigor and vitality Bola Tinubu brought to governance. Today, Lagos is a national and global model of good governance thanks to Tinubu and his party.

Indeed, the falsity of the accusations against Tinubu and Fashola by the faceless would be apparent to independent and fair minded citizens if, in the absence of the opportunity for formal proof and denial otherwise afforded in responding to identifiable accusers, and with the benefit of seeing through the Big Lie Strategy, they consider:

– Whether accusations of secrecy bordering on the Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law of 2007 are valid and reasonable when: (a) the law is available for public scrutiny in the Lagos State of Nigeria Official Gazette Extraordinary No. 37 Vol. 40 of May 18, 2007; (b) the law, in fact, documents the benefits payable to retired public officers instead of arbitrary pay-outs; and (c) the approach agrees with internationally acceptable practices including the model in the United States under the Former Presidents Act, Presidential Transition Act and Former Presidents Protection Act.- Whether there is, in fact, a property on Oyinkan Abayomi that has served as Guest House to the Lagos State Government since 1979?- Whether the outlandish value of the properties listed in the publication are not arbitrary, unsubstantiated and indicative of the mischievous actions of desperate political operatives.- Whether reputable publicly traded organizations with internationally sanctioned codes of corporate governance such as Oando Plc and UACN Plc would engage, without obvious consequences, in such shady deals as described in the publication.

– Whether the fact that I share a common surname with the CEO of Oando Plc is not being used as a fodder to feed damaging conspiracy theories and score cheap political points at the expense of the truth.

– Whether the relocation of the Ikosi Road Campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic to its permanent site at Ikorodu was not in fulfilment of the Master Plan for the institution.

– Whether it is not lazy and outlandish to suggest that every major property developer in Lagos State is fronting for me. Are most of these developments not funded by facilities from the banks?

– Whether the matters relating to Federal Government properties in Lagos State are not presently before the Supreme Court of Nigeria and whether there is any shred of documented evidence substantiating the accusations concerning the old Federal Secretariat.

– Whether sharing a surname with a doctor working at the Critical Care Unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital is sufficient to reasonably conclude that I personally own the unit. Is that not laughable in itself?
The truth of the matter is that the detractors do not understand Tinubu and the progressives with their style and innovative approach to governance. Not because they are incapable of doing so, but because the years of waste and charlatanism presided over by these same detractors have become conditioned to their tired, regressive and destructive approach to governance, wealth management and infrastructure development. Tinubu is a trail blazer and represents that new progressive and aggressive generation of managers who, having won the confidence of their people to occupy political offices, have embarked on new methods of financing projects. This group has fully tapped and developed the potentials of Public Private Partnership initiatives. By so doing, being able to complete and embark on projects that only decades of reliance on federal allocations would achieve. Yes, private sector people benefited but the benefits were legitimate and the people got value. And, what is more, it accords with international best practices.

The APC approach to governance in Lagos has empowered the private sector players. It has led to the creation of jobs and opportunities for ordinary citizens. Citizens have gotten value and are positioned to continue to get long term value. This approach has in fact, reduced corruption and waste in governance.

Do the PDP detractors know these? Yes, they do. Why, then, are they falsifying the records and creating and spreading malicious innuendos? Because they want to play on the people’s readiness and tendency (justifiable by years of disappointing governance) to believe that ALL politicians are corrupt and that any new agenda is an avenue to siphon funds. It is evil, devilish, criminal and morally reprehensible for our detractors to attempt to take advantage of our people in this way.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the objectives of the publishers of this otherwise defamatory articles are to malign the person of Tinubu and attack the viability of the APC platform, to manipulate the people and impede the progress of the Progressives. It is an act of desperation and politically motivated character assassination carried to its highest and nauseating level against Tinubu. Like it failed in the past, this attempt again will kiss the dust.

Letter from Hon Sanni.A.
to the current first Lady.

Dear Patience Faka Jonathan,

How is everything going for you and the rest of the people in Aso Rock?

I write this letter in response to your statement, “We are not conductors so we don’t ask for change”. I just want to tell you that in the real sense of it, bus conductors do not ask for CHANGE. It is usually the passengers who
ask for CHANGE.

Your husband, Goodluck Jonathan was chosen as the driver to convey Nigerians to their destination; PDP was appointed the conductor; and the Nigerian masses were and are still the passengers. As passengers, we had paid our bus fares in 2011 using the vote currency and now, we are asking, demanding for CHANGE as we approach our destination, 2015.

Often times, bus conductors do not agree to give the passengers their CHANGE easily (at least not without a fight or exchange of words ). Like
the bus conductors we know, PDP does not intend to give us the CHANGE that is due us even when
they know this is the right thing to do.

But we the Nigerian Masses (who live without basic amenities; who are unemployed; who do not feel secure at home and in public places; who
have been designated as targets for shooting practice etc.) have decided to get our CHANGE from the conductor (PDP and Cabals).

You see the wind of change has so caught with you. This is why even you ought to vote for CHANGE.

Thanks for gathering your things as you prepare to quit Aso Rock back to Otuoke or Okrika,the choice is yours

Yours sincerely,
Rt Hon Sanni.A
(A LEGITIMATE PASSENGER)

Buhari is old,
Buhari is sick,
Buhari is stern,
Buhari has friends,
Buhari has no friends
Buhari has no certificate
Buhari, where is your wife
Buhari's wife is in purdah
Buhari's wife has no certificate
Buhari's wife is a make up artist
Buhari's daughter is abroad
Buhari is an extremist
Buhari delegates
Buhari is a dictator
Buhari is at home
Buhari is abroad
Buhari is a soldier
Buhari cannot compromise Buhari is working
with BAT
Buhari has no plan
Buhari's plan is too costly
Buhari is this
Buhari is that
.
Well, just in case we missed it, Buhari is
human!!!
And thank god, we all can say;
Buhari is not a thief
Buhari is not lazy
Buhari is committed
Buhari is passionate
Buhari is a Nigerian
Buhari is a general
Buhari has been to war
Buhari has true follower ship
Buhari is a politician's nightmare
Buhari is a movement
Buhari is clean
Buhari is discipline
Buhari is persistent
Buhari is tenacious
Buhari is simple
Love him or hate him, Buhari image alone has
changed Nigeria for
good.

President Goodluck Jonathan left no one in doubt about the type of campaign he wanted to run when he picked well known loose cannon with no modicum of decency, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, as his campaign spokesperson. Fani-Kayode had earlier styled himself as a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), when he was actually never one, not having being recognized as such by APC leadership when he was in the party, and not on record to have been found worthy of being invited for APC meetings, according to APC spokesperson, Lai Mohammed

Known for throwing decency to the gutters with toxic Facebook posts, and error-ridden newspaper articles, the Osun State-born law graduate, had conducted himself in the last few years in a manner that makes one wonder if the globally respected Cambridge University will ever be proud of such product. Or how else do you think of someone that goes around writing on the number of women he had slept with as contribution to debates on the legality and morality of “deportation” of destitute of certain origin from Lagos?

It is only in Nigeria that someone of Fani-Kayode’s standing, someone having a money laundering case before the courts, will be appointed by a President as campaign spokesperson. In countries where choices of candidates by citizens are scientific, not based on religious and ethnic sentiments as exploited here, such faux pas is enough to lose elections.

Fani-Kayode has since discharged his duty to type – daily regaling us with tissues of lies to demonize the candidacy of General Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the APC. First, he sold to the media the non-issue of Buhari’s certificate, and even when the Katsina school where General Buhari had his secondary education, released the statement of result of the general and the masterlist issued by Cambridge University which conducted the exam in 1961, he declared it fake. It did not occur to him that Cambridge would have come out to disclaim the result if it never originated from it. How anyone would attribute a fake document to Cambridge – of all paces – in this age, and some gullible Nigerians bought it, is beyond me. In any case, all the misattributions to Cambridge by the PDP, including that Hausa language was not offered in 1961, had already torn into pieces and dumped into waste bin where they belonged, with the school’s external assessment body issuing a statement on its website, confirming that they indeed set Hausa language in Northern Nigeria in 1961. I wonder whether the same Cambridge would not have disowned the circulated Buhari’s grades if they never originated from them, which would have been criminal.

Fani-Kayode and his Social Media hirelings have thrown everything – including the kitchen sink – in the direction of the General. They have forged medical reports in the name on a non-existent “Ahmadu Bello Teaching Hospital” to declare Buhari as having prostate cancer, they have circulated “minutes” of imaginary meetings to say Jega met with Northern elders in Kaduna (in other reports, Dubai) on rigging elections, they have hired commercial protesters to embarrass General Buhari in London. They have paid millions of naira to put up adverts in national dailies in the name of a fictitious “Muslim” group in the South West endorsing Buhari because “they wanted Islamization of the South West”. I have seen SMS messages being circulated by unfortunately educated folks including a chartered accountant friend from the South South, that a vote for Jonathan means four more years of non-payment of annual subscription of OIC (Organization of Islamic Conference) which is in its sixth year now and which means Nigeria will be expunged from OIC when the non-payment reaches ten years – as a reason to vote Jonathan. It does not occur to these vendors of fictions that Jonathan was the first Nigerian president to attend OIC meeting since the country’s return to civil rule. Their fiction factory keeps churning out lies every other day. The country has never gone so low.

Fani-Kayode was yet again at his lying best when he addressed the press few days ago accusing APC of having made their vice presidential candidate, Yemi Osinbajo, of signing to an oath to resign after six months in office. It is more unfortunate that the press which should have by now been familiar with the wicked fabrications of Fani-Kayode, gave this hogwash an undeserved prominence. This allegation started from some vendors of misinformation on the social media, where some of us that are equally social media-savvy proved beyond reasonable doubt that this was not true; it is therefore very unfortunate that President Jonathan’s official campaign latched on to this beer parlour gist.

I will try and shed light on this for those who have open minds. The first bearer of the disinformation on the social media had made reference to Tunde Bakare’s statement in 2011 that the ACN/CPC last minute alliance collapsed principally because ACN requested for a slot in the ticket, which was fair, as ACN had more national spread than CPC. This being politics, no one would have expected ACN to submit its structure to CPC without a commitment to play a major part in the government. It is like two companies merging and one (ACN) bringing sixty per cent equity, it is only natural that the company will be significantly represented on the board (ticket). While Buhari and Bakare were coming from CPC and the ticket cannot be altered again being few days to election, it is not out of place for ACN to put forward an equitable proposal to have the VP slot when the government comes on board. This is a basic principle of negotiation. That was 2011, and there was no secrecy about it as newspapers reported it and I remember Femi Adesina of Daily Sun also making it the subject of his column the week after. In any case the proposal was not even accepted by Buhari and Bakare, and the alliance collapsed.

Between 2011 and 2015, the two parties, alongside a faction of APGA, ANPP, DPP, and the new PDP, had formed the APC. Now, both the old CPC and the ACN have representatives on the ticket with Buhari coming from CPC and Osinbajo coming from ACN. This has automatically ruled out the 2011-type proposed negotiation for alteration in ticket on assumption of office. This is what Fani-Kayode is twisting to further demonise the APC. Any enlightened follower of political developments in Nigeria should know this. In any case, even if Tinubu comes on board along the way (which is only a figment of their imagination), Tinubu is by far a better administrator than Jonathan. I’m not a fan of Tinubu, but I will pick him over Jonathan as President. Between 1999-2007 when Nigeria was afflicted with probably the worst set of non-performing governors in its history, Tinubu stood tall as a decent performer in Lagos – even when the man at the helms in the center withheld the state’s allocations. His political recruitment strategy is also top-notch as those he backed for power, from Aregbesola to Amosun and Ajimobi, are testament to this. I may not be comfortable with his records on anti-graft scale, but I believe we have seen the worst under the current Federal Government. This is by no means a validation of this fabrication, but only playing in their own court.

If General Buhari did not accept this proposal in 2011, there is no way he could have accepted it in 2015, just as Osinbanjo, a pastor like Bakare, would not have accepted the arrangement. The whole thing is just another figment of Fani-Kayode’s warped imagination.

The election is less than four weeks, and I know Fani-Kayode’s fiction machine is still being oiled to produce more between now and the election date, if they ever allow the election to hold. However, some of us will also not stop setting the records straight. The task of extricating Nigeria from these fiction vendors and setting it on the path of progress is the business of every patriotic Nigerian.


Oyewale, an accountant and blogger, lives in Ajah, Lagos

March 4 Buhari.......we have decided

Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But as we all know, Nigeria is now battling with many challenges, and if I refer to them, I do so only to impress on our friends in the United Kingdom that we are quite aware of our shortcomings and are doing our best to address them.

The 2015 general election in Nigeria is generating a lot of interests within and outside the country. This is understandable. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest economy, is at a defining moment, a moment that has great implications beyond the democratic project and beyond the borders of my dear country.

So let me say upfront that the global interest in Nigeria’s landmark election is not misplaced at all and indeed should be commended; for this is an election that has serious import for the world. I urge the international community to continue to focus on Nigeria at this very critical moment. Given increasing global linkages, it is in our collective interests that the postponed elections should hold on the rescheduled dates; that they should be free and fair; that their outcomes should be respected by all parties; and that any form of extension, under whichever guise, is unconstitutional and will not be tolerated.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, democracy became the dominant and most preferred system of government across the globe. That global transition has been aptly captured as the triumph of democracy and the ‘most pre-eminent political idea of our time.’ On a personal note, the phased end of the USSR was a turning point for me. It convinced me that change can be brought about without firing a single shot.

As you all know, I had been a military head of state in Nigeria for twenty months. We intervened because we were unhappy with the state of affairs in our country. We wanted to arrest the drift. Driven by patriotism, influenced by the prevalence and popularity of such drastic measures all over Africa and elsewhere, we fought our way to power. But the global triumph of democracy has shown that another and a preferable path to change is possible. It is an important lesson I have carried with me since, and a lesson that is not lost on the African continent.

In the last two decades, democracy has grown strong roots in Africa. Elections, once so rare, are now so commonplace. As at the time I was a military head of state between 1983 and 1985, only four African countries held regular multi-party elections. But the number of electoral democracies in Africa, according to Freedom House, jumped to 10 in 1992/1993 then to 18 in 1994/1995 and to 24 in 2005/2006. According to the New York Times, 42 of the 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa conducted multi-party elections between 1990 and 2002.

The newspaper also reported that between 2000 and 2002, ruling parties in four African countries (Senegal, Mauritius, Ghana and Mali) peacefully handed over power to victorious opposition parties. In addition, the proportion of African countries categorized as not free by Freedom House declined from 59% in 1983 to 35% in 2003. Without doubt, Africa has been part of the current global wave of democratisation.

But the growth of democracy on the continent has been uneven. According to Freedom House, the number of electoral democracies in Africa slipped from 24 in 2007/2008 to 19 in 2011/2012; while the percentage of countries categorised as ‘not free’ assuming for the sake of argument that we accept their definition of “free” increased from 35% in 2003 to 41% in 2013. Also, there have been some reversals at different times in Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cote D’Ivoire, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Mali, Madagascar, Mauritania and Togo. We can choose to look at the glass of democracy in Africa as either half full or half empty.

While you can’t have representative democracy without elections, it is equally important to look at the quality of the elections and to remember that mere elections do not democracy make. It is globally agreed that democracy is not an event, but a journey. And that the destination of that journey is democratic consolidation – that state where democracy has become so rooted and so routine and widely accepted by all actors.

With this important destination in mind, it is clear that though many African countries now hold regular elections, very few of them have consolidated the practice of democracy. It is important to also state at this point that just as with elections, a consolidated democracy cannot be an end by itself. I will argue that it is not enough to hold a series of elections or even to peacefully alternate power among parties.

It is much more important that the promise of democracy goes beyond just allowing people to freely choose their leaders. It is much more important that democracy should deliver on the promise of choice, of freedoms, of security of lives and property, of transparency and accountability, of rule of law, of good governance and of shared prosperity. It is very important that the promise embedded in the concept of democracy, the promise of a better life for the generality of the people, is not delivered in the breach.

Now, let me quickly turn to Nigeria. As you all know, Nigeria’s fourth republic is in its 16th year and this general election will be the fifth in a row. This is a major sign of progress for us, given that our first republic lasted five years and three months, the second republic ended after four years and two months and the third republic was a still-birth. However, longevity is not the only reason why everyone is so interested in this election.

The major difference this time around is that for the very first time since transition to civil rule in 1999, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is facing its stiffest opposition so far from our party the All Progressives Congress (APC). We once had about 50 political parties, but with no real competition. Now Nigeria is transitioning from a dominant party system to a competitive electoral polity, which is a major marker on the road to democratic consolidation. As you know, peaceful alternation of power through competitive elections have happened in Ghana, Senegal, Malawi and Mauritius in recent times. The prospects of democratic consolidation in Africa will be further brightened when that eventually happens in Nigeria.

But there are other reasons why Nigerians and the whole world are intensely focussed on this year’s elections, chief of which is that the elections are holding in the shadow of huge security, economic and social uncertainties in Africa’s most populous country and largest economy. On insecurity, there is a genuine cause for worry, both within and outside Nigeria. Apart from the civil war era, at no other time in our history has Nigeria been this insecure.

Boko Haram has sadly put Nigeria on the terrorism map, killing more than 13,000 of our nationals, displacing millions internally and externally, and at a time holding on to portions of our territory the size of Belgium. What has been consistently lacking is the required leadership in our battle against insurgency. I, as a retired general and a former head of state, have always known about our soldiers: they are capable, well trained, patriotic, brave and always ready to do their duty in the service of our country.

You all can bear witness to the gallant role of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and in many other peacekeeping operations in several parts of the world. But in the matter of this insurgency, our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem. The government has also failed in any effort towards a multi-dimensional response to this problem leading to a situation in which we have now become dependent on our neighbours to come to our rescue.

Let me assure you that if I am elected president, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service, we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunitions to work with, we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram’s financial and equipment channels, we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas. We will always act on time and not allow problems to irresponsibly fester, and I, Muhammadu Buhari, will always lead from the front and return Nigeria to its leadership role in regional and international efforts to combat terrorism.

On the economy, the fall in prices of oil has brought our economic and social stress into full relief. After the rebasing exercise in April 2014, Nigeria overtook South Africa as Africa’s largest economy. Our GDP is now valued at $510 billion and our economy rated 26th in the world. Also on the bright side, inflation has been kept at single digit for a while and our economy has grown at an average of 7% for about a decade.

But it is more of paper growth, a growth that, on account of mismanagement, profligacy and corruption, has not translated to human development or shared prosperity. A development economist once said three questions should be asked about a country’s development: one, what is happening to poverty? Two, what is happening to unemployment? And three, what is happening to inequality?

The answers to these questions in Nigeria show that the current administration has created two economies in one country, a sorry tale of two nations: one economy for a few who have so much in their tiny island of prosperity; and the other economy for the many who have so little in their vast ocean of misery.

Even by official figures, 33.1% of Nigerians live in extreme poverty. That’s at almost 60 million, almost the population of the United Kingdom. There is also the unemployment crisis simmering beneath the surface, ready to explode at the slightest stress, with officially 23.9% of our adult population and almost 60% of our youth unemployed. We also have one of the highest rates of inequalities in the world.

With all these, it is not surprising that our performance on most governance and development indicators (like Mo Ibrahim Index on African Governance and UNDP’s Human Development Index.) are unflattering. With fall in the prices of oil, which accounts for more than 70% of government revenues, and lack of savings from more than a decade of oil boom, the poor will be disproportionately impacted.

In the face of dwindling revenues, a good place to start the repositioning of Nigeria’s economy is to swiftly tackle two ills that have ballooned under the present administration: waste and corruption. And in doing this, I will, if elected, lead the way, with the force of personal example.

On corruption, there will be no confusion as to where I stand. Corruption will have no place and the corrupt will not be appointed into my administration. First and foremost, we will plug the holes in the budgetary process. Revenue producing entities such as NNPC and Customs and Excise will have one set of books only. Their revenues will be publicly disclosed and regularly audited. The institutions of state dedicated to fighting corruption will be given independence and prosecutorial authority without political interference.

But I must emphasise that any war waged on corruption should not be misconstrued as settling old scores or a witch-hunt. I’m running for President to lead Nigeria to prosperity and not adversity.

In reforming the economy, we will use savings that arise from blocking these leakages and the proceeds recovered from corruption to fund our party’s social investments programmes in education, health, and safety nets such as free school meals for children, emergency public works for unemployed youth and pensions for the elderly.

As a progressive party, we must reform our political economy to unleash the pent-up ingenuity and productivity of the Nigerian people thus freeing them from the curse of poverty. We will run a private sector-led economy but maintain an active role for government through strong regulatory oversight and deliberate interventions and incentives to diversify the base of our economy, strengthen productive sectors, improve the productive capacities of our people and create jobs for our teeming youths.

In short, we will run a functional economy driven by a worldview that sees growth not as an end by itself, but as a tool to create a society that works for all, rich and poor alike. On March 28, Nigeria has a decision to make. To vote for the continuity of failure or to elect progressive change. I believe the people will choose wisely.

In sum, I think that given its strategic importance, Nigeria can trigger a wave of democratic consolidation in Africa. But as a starting point we need to get this critical election right by ensuring that they go ahead, and depriving those who want to scuttle it the benefit of derailing our fledgling democracy. That way, we will all see democracy and democratic consolidation as tools for solving pressing problems in a sustainable way, not as ends in themselves.

Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s Transition

Permit me to close this discussion on a personal note. I have heard and read references to me as a former dictator in many respected British newspapers including the well regarded Economist. Let me say without sounding defensive that dictatorship goes with military rule, though some might be less dictatorial than others. I take responsibility for whatever happened under my watch.

I cannot change the past. But I can change the present and the future. So before you is a former military ruler and a converted democrat who is ready to operate under democratic norms and is subjecting himself to the rigours of democratic elections for the fourth time.

You may ask: why is he doing this? This is a question I ask myself all the time too. And here is my humble answer: because the work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

I thank you for listening

Hmnn

We bring you We bring you top 30 quotes from Pres. Goodluck Jonathan’s #PresidentialMediaChat

February 11, 2015

by Hon Sanni Abdulakeem

President Goodluck Jonathan has just concluded his media chat with a select number of pressmen.

The chat which is organised to foster an avenue to give answers to pertinent questions on national issues.

Pres. Jonathan who faced a panel comprising of top media personalities, Adesuwa Onyenekwe, Deji Badmus, Ibanga Isine and Ibrahim Sheme, assured that the upcoming election will be free and fair.

“If the elections are conducted and I lose, I will go home… the poll will free and fair,” he said.

Read the top 30 tweets from Jonathan below:

1. I eat Chicken not Turkey – Jonathan

2. I didn’t say stealing is good, I only said stealing isn’t corruption.

3. Those quoting me as saying that ‘stealing is not corruption’ have not said that the President said stealing is good. Thieves should be treated as thieves. Do not use the word ‘corruption’ to cover so many things.

4. Now that we are working with Chad, I believe that in the next few weeks the story of the Chibok girls will get better.

5. I am not God, but I am more hopeful now than before in terms of combing the whole areas.

6. We are working with our neighbours and we will comb the whole of that area. Just give us some time.

7. I did not go dancing after kidnap of Chibok Girls.

8. Most presidents will tell you that it is more difficult for the 2nd election (re-election).

9. If INEC conducts this election poorly, it is on my head.

10. I have not told anybody that I want to remove Jega. I have never said so.

11. A number of people tell me the messages from my team are confusing.

12. One thing about politics, leadership generally, you have a nos of people who support you but you don’t know what they say.

13. There is no hiding place for the Boko Haram again, As we are talking, only Madagali is remaining (under Boko Haram).

14. In Yobe, two local governments are affected and in the next couple of weeks we will take them over.

15. In Borno State, we have 10 to 12 LGs under Boko Haram. The issue of security is beyond Boko Haram.

16. Politicians are instigating some young people to act in ways not expected.

17. Several countries of the world have one problem or the other

18. The issue of PVC interests me most. Before 2011 Nigerians were not talking about Voter’s Card.

19. I was already in my village when INEC announced the postponement. I don’t decide date for election, INEC must work with security agencies.

20. Election is like any tournament, FIFA says March, later say April or May. The winning team will still win. No big deal.

21. I was not consulted about the postponement and I don’t want to be consulted.

22. It is quite unfortunate that there is a lot of wrong information in the system, especially in the social media & normal media.

23. People say I mean well for this country, its true because people close to me know I have passion for Nigeria.

24 .Anybody who wants to hold the office of the president and thinks he’s more important than the nations, it’s not right.

25. We must not put money where people can take it, like we did with in agriculture with fertiliser.
26. Boko Haram is faceless. When the Niger Delta militants were pressing their needs they met with the president.
27. APC started their campaign before me. They visited like 4 states before PDP started.
28. I don’t have the time for social media.
29. I appointed INEC chairman and the RECs and I know that they will do the job.
30. I want a situation where every Nigerian must vote.at

February 11, 2015

by Hon Sanni Abdulakeem

President Goodluck Jonathan has just concluded his media chat with a select number of pressmen.

The chat which is organised to foster an avenue to give answers to pertinent questions on national issues.

Pres. Jonathan who faced a panel comprising of top media personalities, Adesuwa Onyenekwe, Deji Badmus, Ibanga Isine and Ibrahim Sheme, assured that the upcoming election will be free and fair.

“If the elections are conducted and I lose, I will go home… the poll will free and fair,” he said.

Read the top 30 tweets from Jonathan below:

1. I eat Chicken not Turkey – Jonathan

2. I didn’t say stealing is good, I only said stealing isn’t corruption.

3. Those quoting me as saying that ‘stealing is not corruption’ have not said that the President said stealing is good. Thieves should be treated as thieves. Do not use the word ‘corruption’ to cover so many things.

4. Now that we are working with Chad, I believe that in the next few weeks the story of the Chibok girls will get better.

5. I am not God, but I am more hopeful now than before in terms of combing the whole areas.

6. We are working with our neighbours and we will comb the whole of that area. Just give us some time.

7. I did not go dancing after kidnap of Chibok Girls.

8. Most presidents will tell you that it is more difficult for the 2nd election (re-election).

9. If INEC conducts this election poorly, it is on my head.

10. I have not told anybody that I want to remove Jega. I have never said so.

11. A number of people tell me the messages from my team are confusing.

12. One thing about politics, leadership generally, you have a nos of people who support you but you don’t know what they say.

13. There is no hiding place for the Boko Haram again, As we are talking, only Madagali is remaining (under Boko Haram).

14. In Yobe, two local governments are affected and in the next couple of weeks we will take them over.

15. In Borno State, we have 10 to 12 LGs under Boko Haram. The issue of security is beyond Boko Haram.

16. Politicians are instigating some young people to act in ways not expected.

17. Several countries of the world have one problem or the other

18. The issue of PVC interests me most. Before 2011 Nigerians were not talking about Voter’s Card.

19. I was already in my village when INEC announced the postponement. I don’t decide date for election, INEC must work with security agencies.

20. Election is like any tournament, FIFA says March, later say April or May. The winning team will still win. No big deal.

21. I was not consulted about the postponement and I don’t want to be consulted.

22. It is quite unfortunate that there is a lot of wrong information in the system, especially in the social media & normal media.

23. People say I mean well for this country, its true because people close to me know I have passion for Nigeria.

24 .Anybody who wants to hold the office of the president and thinks he’s more important than the nations, it’s not right.

25. We must not put money where people can take it, like we did with in agriculture with fertiliser.
26. Boko Haram is faceless. When the Niger Delta militants were pressing their needs they met with the president.
27. APC started their campaign before me. They visited like 4 states before PDP started.
28. I don’t have the time for social media.
29. I appointed INEC chairman and the RECs and I know that they will do the job.
30. I want a situation where every Nigerian must vote.

BREAKING: Jega Has Already Drafted His Resignation Letter

Information available to 247ureports.com obtained from sources within the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] indicates that the days of the INEC chairman may be numbered at the seat of Chair of the INEC. A close source to the INEC Chairman reveals that the Chairman has already drafted his resignation letter – in wait for the “right moment”.

According to the available information, the embattled INEC Chairman had opted to resign several times before the 2015 election following unflattering practices attributed to his person and office.  The latest round of accusation against the INEC Chairman comes amid calls for his resignation over broad allegations of bias from groups across the country. Many of the groups alleged that Prof Jega’s actions had showed his bias against the southen regions of Nigerian and against political parties who are not in-line with the All Progressive Congress [APC]. One of the groups who spoke to 247ureports.com indicate that the INEC Chairman had aided the merger process of the APC in a fashion that went beyond the duties of an INEC chairman. “Prof Jega was holding closed door meetings with members of the would-be APC on how to properly apply for the merger of the three parties in a legal manner” said the leader who went on to add that Prof Jega was “in fact assisting them to collect the necessary items” they needed to complete the application process. “He was acting as an associate of the party”.

The security report on Prof Jega prior to his becoming the INEC chairman – which was leaked out of the State Security Service [SSS] offices indicating that Prof Jega may have not been an upright operator as thought – has caused many within the INEC to take a closer look at the chairman. According to the report by the SSS, it was gathered that while Prof Jega served as the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano, he engaged in contract fraud and other related financial crimes. Particularly, it was gathered that many of the awards of contracts for infrastructural development within the university campus was awarded to companies owned by Prof. Jega. The companies were operated as fronts by many of Jega’s extended family members and friends.

The sharp practices contained in the report was brought to the attention of the President by the agents of the SSS. President Jonathan was not pleased with the contents of the security report. But it took the intervention of the Principal Secretary to the Presidency, Hassan Tukur who impressed on President Jonathan that the addition of Prof Jega would be an added bonus to the integrity of the INEC. The President heeded to the plea of Hassan Tukur – and announced the appointment of Prof Jega as the new INEC chairman.

But Jega’s announcement as the new INEC chairman came with its bit of drawbacks for the President. This is as the INEC Chairman remained at an arms length away from the President. The INEC Chairman, unlike he other INEC chairmen that came before him, developed a cold relationship with the President. According to sources, Prof. Jega would only brief the President on the progress reports and/or status reports on a biweekly basis – and nothing more. “He did not consult the President on any matters – neither did he attempt to develop a cordial relationship with the president. Prof Jega’s demeanor towards the President, according to sources, concerned some of the handlers of the Presidency who saw Jega’s attitude as suspicious and unhealthy for the institution of the INEC. When the President was alerted on the possible suspicious demeanor of the INEC Chairman, the President was quick to refer them to Hassan Tukur’s assurance that Prof. Jega was not a worry.

However with the built up the 2015 presidential elections, Prof Jega’s attitude began to lose its shell – and began to show its true intentions. It gradually started to become clearer to the presidency that Prof. Jega may have been working with the opposition party in seeking to return power to the core north. The exercise to selectively increase the number of polling units in the northern region of the country raised eyebrows – as to the reasons behind the abrupt decision by the INEC chairman. The fast actions of National commissioners from the southern regions of the country halted the INEC Chairman from proceeding to implement his desired to populate the northern part of the country with the larger majority of the polling units. It took the arm twisting of the INEC Chairman to back-down from the decision.

When Prof Jega’s effort to populate the north with polling units failed, he devised a plan to use the ‘Permanent Voters Card [PVC] to create the needed imbalance in the north/south polity. Anchoring his plan on the rule that all voters must have a PVC before being allowed to vote, the INEC Chairman and some of his national chairmen devised a plan to give the northern part of he country an overwhelming advantage in the distribution of the said PVCs. The PVC were effectively distributed through the Imams and other community leaders in select states of the core north where the APC supporters are known to concentrate. While in the southern regions of country, the PVCs were dumped at the respective INEC offices at the local government areas – for the owners to come and collect. For this reason, the collection percentage of the PVCs in the northern region became much more higher than those in the southern region. It exposed what appears a structured disparity.

Mr. President, according to presidential sources, is not happy with Prof. Jega as a result.

“Arrangements are on the offing to begin the removal process for the INEC chairman” says the source who also emphasized that the INEC chairman is also aware of the process – and has decided to hang-on to raise some ‘dust’ before existing the INEC offices. “The Prof knows that he is going”. But it remains to be seen if the President would follow through on his stated intent to remove the INEC chairman and to replace him with a Professor from the South west region. The brother to the governor of Ondo state – has been touted as a possible replacement for Prof Jega.

When 247ureports.com reached out to the INEC office though the spokesman, Kayode Idowu, he brushed aside Prof. Jega’s resignation as mere rumor. He then added that Prof. Jega remains the INEC Chairman. “Jega will conduct this election” he added.

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Stay tuned as the story unfolds…

INEC POSTPONEMENT OF ELECTION; THE
IMPLICATIONS?
PDP celebrating election postponement as victory.
Tells you all you need to know about the direction of this
election
What difference can 6 weeks make?
Will it return our 30 trillion naira?
Will it return our 6.8 trillion naira?
Will it build our refineries?
Will it provide our promised national carrier?
Will it bring back our girls?
Will it bring back our youths? murdered by Abba Moro?
Will it sanitize NNPC?
Will it end boko haram terrorism?
Will it reduce the poverty rate?
Will it add the year our children lost in the universities?
Will it give us purposeful leadership?
Will it restore the dying naira?
Will it restore the credibility of our president in the
international community.
Be patient folks, we will definitely vote out cluelessness,
incompetence and corruption
Everyday for the thief, one day for the owner, the owner's day
is here.
Even,if the election is eventually postponed;
Nigerians have decided to vote Buhari/Osinbajo as president;
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The election is no longer between PDP & APC but between
Nigerians and PDP.
Please all, stay the course,# March4 Buhari to Asotock

THE JONATHAN MUST STAY IN POWER STRATEGY
PHASE 1: Do nothing. There is no serious challenger. You
have good luck.
PHASE 2: Ensure GEJ is the only aspirant contesting the PDP
primaries.
PHASE 3: Persuade the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria to go
on strike to "prevent the Court of Appeal and the Supreme
Court from pronouncing on the eligibility of Mr. President to
run the election in 2015 and to also shutout politicians, who
may be dissatisfied with the outcome of the PDP primaries
and might want to initiate pre-election suit."
PHASE 4: Attack Buhari (Part 1)
Aim: To discredit him before the masses.
Action points:
* Tell them his is a fanatic. (This was effective last time)
* Tell them he is old.
* Tell them he is sick and may die in office.
* Tell them he has no certificate.
* Recruit pastors, General Overseers and Keepers of the Gates
of Hell to campaign against him.
If Phase 4 fails, continue to phase 5.
PHASE 5: Attack Buhari (Part 2)
Aim: Ensure Buhari doesn't get to the polls.
Action points:
* Persuade the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria to call off the
strike in order to allow for suits to be filed in order to use the
courts to (under pressure) disqualify Buhari.
* Mount pressure on INEC to postpone the election in order to
allow enough time for the courts to sit and on the PDP-
sponsored court cases against Buhari and disqualify him.
* If INEC is proving stubborn, get the Nigerian Army to
withdraw support for the elections.
* Once INEC confirms postponement of the election, go back
to the court and strongarm them into disqualifying him.
* If postponement of the election causes widespread
reactions, demonstrations and possible violence, set the
stage for military clampdown on the whole country and cancel
elections altogether.
* This will lead to more violence and instability. Jonathan
will remain in power to "return the country to peace before
conducting elections again." This process may take "as long
as necessary."
PHASE 6: Worst case scenario
Aim: Prevent any election whatsoever.
Action points:
* Hand over to the military. It is better to hand over to a
corrupt military than to have an incorruptible civilian win any
election that may be organised. At least the corrupt military
will appreciate us for handing over to them and they will
protect us and what we have stolen. After all, we are partners
in crime.
There is almost absolutely nothing this administration has
done that is in the interest of the common man. This has been
a government that is 100% for Jonathan himself and his
league of vampires and megalomaniacs.
The same army that cannot secure elections is busy blocking
streets in Lagos in order to prevent anti-postponement
rallies.
My advice to fellow Nigerians is, don't resort to any violence
whatsoever. Get your PVCs and wait. They can postpone
FeBuhari 14, but they cannot postpone May 29, 2015. To do
that, they need gross violence. Don't give them that. We will
still vote out this gross incompetence and despotism.
The constitution allows a maximum of 6 weeks for
postponement. That lands us in March and # GMB will surely
# MarchToAsoRock.

Copy cat......check dis out

FELLOW NIGERIANS, IS THIS THE PRESIDENT YOU DESERVE?

May the Judgment of God not befall us and our families if with our votes we deliberately return a Govt of Hunger, corruption and death to the Nigerian people. Kindly distribute through your BBM and Whatsapp contacts, enough is enough!!



November 2014, Jonathan shocked Nigerians with the news that Boko haram has taken control of 6 towns in 4 LGA’s the height of incompetence in balkanizing the Nigerian state, a week later, Nigerians were blown away by series of austerity measures handed to them for their stupidity in 2011.

The naira was devalued at the pretext of drop in oil prices but Nigerians never asked why the Naira never appreciated when the oil price was increasing?
If the foreign reserve were not stolen, Nigeria would have weathered the storm for at least 6months like we did during the global melt down of 2004 and 2008, unfortunately, the incompetence of the Jonathan administration has brought grave consequence on the Nigerian people, Inflation and high cost of energy are likely consequences.

According to Will Ross of the BBC “He said he hoped a parliamentary investigation would also find out why the country's Excess Crude Account had fallen from $11.5bn to under $2.5bn in a year - arguing that Nigeria's savings are a vital buffer against any drop in the global oil price and without this "rainy day" account, the economy is vulnerable and exposed.

October 2014; Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the Federal republic of Nigeria uses a militant Asari Dokubo for black market gun running, evident from the grounding and seizure of over $10m by the South African authorities.
September, 2014, The Nigerian Government admitted ferrying over $10m in a private jet for arms procurement, where do we draw the line between money laundering and arms procurement? I asked myself about the recent helos that was delivered by Russia recently if it was purchased in the same manner, agree with me or not, Jonathan is neck deep not just in corruption but money laundering.

August 2014: As a result of the unabated corruption in the Nigerian Military, Mutiny of July gave rise to Boko haram declaring a caliphate on Nigerian Soil, Gentlemen and Ladies, Jonathan Has once again made a history of Incompetence. Never in the history of Nigeria have we ceded territories to bandits.


July 2014: saw a president who went to sleep while neighboring West African countries battled with the Ebola virus, his negligence paid off when Patrick Sawyer brought the deadly virus to Nigeria unabated. Since August 2012, when the Ebola outbreak began, The Nigerian govt had no single emergency response plan in place.
$11m emergency fund and N480m budgeted for the control of infectious diseases in the 2013 budget never got to the Lagos state government, the Nigerian Ebola Epicenter.
Still in June, we saw the worst abuse of his Royal majesties powers when he barred APC Governors from attending a rally in Ekiti state with soldiers, meanwhile Boko Haram is still having a field day in the North.
The senate revealed to Nigerians how the president Mis appropriated over 685b kerosene subsidy fund


May 2014: [/b]left us with this shocking statement
“Jonathan, who was asked to comment on the allegations of corrupt practices leveled against some of his ministers, had said that nobody was above mistakes and that if he were to be acting based on reports on each of them, “no one will stay for more than six months in office.” [b]Mere stealing we call corruption"
Still in the same month after the corrupt tales of embezzlement and diversion of military budget, the clueless one finally offered Amnesty to a terrorist group, the first of its kind, in the world.
An Indication that the Jonathan’s administration is run by a den of thieves.

April 2014: reminded us the climax of Jonathan’s administration where he went on a jamboree while book haram held over 200 young girls, hostage,
April never ended before the Dizeani madueke’s 10billion naira scam reached a climax.

March 2014: just before the centenary celebration where Abacha of all people was a beneficiary, scores of Innocent school children were murdered in Adamawa sate.

Feb 2014: saw the illegal suspension of the CBN Gov.at a time the nation was in dire need of foreign direct investment, the Kidnap of the president’s foster father is a realistic score card on his strides on security.
January 2014, a presidential committee was set up to investigate the October scandal of stella odua who came with a guilty verdict, yet she kept her job.

December 2013: ushered the yuletide of Obasanjo’s “before it is too late”, several corruption allegations and the extremism of the Jonathan’s administration, the impunity of plundering the people’ s common wealth and the tenacity of talking drums like Abati who have earned a reputation in insulting the sensibilities of Nigerians.10 bullet proof vehicles purchased by DICON for its top brass

November 2013: the CBN Governor raised an alarm that under Jonathan’s watch, the NNPC diverted $49billion dollars, fellow Nigerians, are we not tired of condoning corruption?

October 2013: ushered a month of corruption coronation in Jonathan’s camp, where the Aviation minister coerced the NCAA to purchase 2 fairly used armored 2008 BMW to the tune of $800,000 each.

September 2013: President Jonathan took a record breaking 600 men entourage for the UN General assembly in New york

August 2013: After the billions of dollars spent in revamping the nation’s airports, skytrax world airport ranking for Africa showed Nigeria didn’t make it to top 10 in Africa neither did it make it top 100th place in the world. Whereas Ethiopia and Mauritania made it to position 9th and 8th respectively, what a shame.

July 2013: transparency international rated Nigeria as the 8th most corrupt country in the world.

June 2013: World Bank appraised him thus;

“Nevertheless, improvements in social welfare indicators have been much slower than would be expected in the context of this growth. Poverty reduction and job creation have not kept pace with population growth, implying social distress for an increasing number of Nigerians. Progress toward the fulfillment of many of the Millennium Development Goals has been slow, and the country ranked 153 out of 186 countries in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Index” the World Bank said.



May 2013: The president after wasting tax payer’s money on an entourage as long as the third mainland bridge went sleeping while his foreign affairs minister represented him in his presence during the AU summit in Addis ababa.
Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan's office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used.

No actual health-care facility nationwide had as many, and in fact a few still have none at all. But as soon as a Nigerian newspaper took a photo of the ambulances and published a story about them, they suddenly disappeared -- probably to an underground garage.

March, 2013: we witnessed the height of moral bankruptcy when Mr President granted presidential pardon to the biggest criminal in the history of our democracy, Alamesigha to prepare him for a senatorial seat.

February 2013: amidst the short fall in crude prices, the president smuggled into the 2013 budget a 2bn appropriation fund for the office of the first lady

February 2013: the office of the presidency denied vehemently that the first lady was on vacation in Germany only for them to organize a survival party with tax payer’s money. Is this the kind of leader you want to hold to his words?

In January 2013: the erst while madam due process and former minister for education challenged the charlatans of jonathans’ administration to a debate on accountability of $67b as expected, honorable cowards and pen thieves, absconded as usual


November 2012: President Jonathan approved 2.2bn naira for the construction of a banquet hall in the villa. At a time our debt profile was all time high

As commander in chief, he stood dumb while a military helicopter was used for "kabu-kabu" at oronto douglas father’s burial that error in judgment alone claimed the life of a sitting Governor. and the most brilliant NSA Nigeria has ever produced.

October 2012: blatantly refusing to appeal the ICJ’s decision on ceding bakassi, thereby throwing Millions of Bakkasi indigenes into pandemonium

refusing to cut down on foreign trips and cost of Governance, contrary to his Nationwide address of 7th Jan 2012.


October 2012: Mr president’s administration spent 1.5 billion to patch the 3rd mainland bridge, 4 months later, triple of that amount was expended again on maintenance alone, Talk about waste and incompetence

August 2012 : He said our foreign reserve is 42billion usd , is that not only on iweala's notepad?
How can you have external debt of 48bn usd and come home to deceive us that we have reserves?
How much services that 48bn plus interest annually? Nearly 25% of 48bn.


August 2012: Under his watch militants earn 10% of the Nation's revenue, $22.5m, $9m and $12.5m for tompolo, Ateke and Asari as national honors.

He twisted facts during the Independence Day speech on his fight on corruption, in contrast to what the transparency international claimed.
By august 2012, 2012 budget implementation was just 13%

over 5, ooo Nigerian lives gone, Mr president is still trading words and negotiating with boko haram, we remain grateful that a quasi state of emergency came to be, at least I cant imagine an SOE where the State Govs sit tight to control state funds while the FG fight their battle.

July 2012: its 3yrs gone and he is yet to commission from scratch a new power plant worst still fired the only human being in his cabinet who knows his onions in the power sector.

July 2012: Mr President earned a congratulatory message for implementing local content policy by importing 200 luxury brands at the cost of over 13.5 million each for a 4 day first ladies summit. While our manufacturing industries beg for patronage.

June 2012: Almost all teaching hospitals in Nigeria have no functional dialysis machine, the most sought of this equipment cost just 5m naira. Statistics has it that more than 60,000 Nigerians die yearly of a kidney related ailment, however, he jets out with his cohorts to seek medical help elsewhere.

ferma is seriously patching federal highways with a budget of over 80 billion naira, there is no coordination between, the MND, NDDC and Federal ministry of works on road maintenance, same contract is awarded over and over before the job is done.

JUNE 2012: Under his watch, the giant of oil and gas reserves is undergoing its worst energy crisis in the world.

tanker drivers alone can cripple his supply network as they wish not to talk of ordinary Niger republic coming to our rescue via imports.

In case you have not heard, Nigeria is very close to Afghanistan on security progress under Jonathan's watch.

June 2012: Education is in crisis. With adult literacy at 57 per cent, overall illiteracy at 66 per cent and more than 10 million out of the 30 million children of primary school age not in school, no serious government should be comfortable. When 40 million adults in a population of 170 million are illiterate, the country is ranked 161 out of 180 countries in the United Nations Comparative Index of Literacy 2012, and has an unemployment rate of 23.7 per cent,
it’s no longer news that only 26% of school leavers gain admission into the universities and only 5% are employed after school thanks to ASUU’s 6 months strike.

June 2012: Mr president’s economic blind men have blessed us with all time high of 37.5% inflation though his mickey mouse cbn governor is still claiming 28%, wondering what he will be claiming now that all bankers are at home, naira devalued, unemployment on the rise etc He still maintains a single digit inflation on paper, I dey laugh.


Mr president is the only Nigerian president that has not initiated a successful programme even Abacha did better with ptf while IBB with FSP and MAMSA, Mr president is still confused with ''YOU WIN''and SURE-P, with zero benefit to the Nigerian people.
on that same vein, Nigeria has the second record high job cuts within the last 2yrs, if in doubt ask the bankers and manufacturing industries.
before his ascension into power, the naira was in a sorry state of 150 to 1 dollar today, Jonathan has handed us an unstable 182 to 1 dollar

June 2012: The dana crash is a testimony that Mr president’s aviation is comatose, not even the attorney general could challenge the allegations of the dana staff in court, in a national disaster of that magnitude?
The girl could have served as a prime witness in a class action against dana
Less than 6months of inconclusive investigations, DANA air hit the Tarmac again.

Still on military, Nigeria has the most under educated junior military officers, before you ask how, Mr president is too lazy to ask him self why imo with highest national examination enrollments still have the least NDA and police academy enrollments, while borno and zamfara as educationally less privileged, have higher quota than Delta and Anambra put together in military enrollments. Nepotism and corruption at its best
Mr President is the only head of state in the world whose wife is a ministry of its own.



January 2012: Under Mr president’s watch, a 250bilion subsidy programme rose to 2 trillion naira yet no arrest, no conviction, no sack, the best miserable Nigerians could get was an AWOL attorney general after 7days of protests. Height of incompetence and corruption.

Mr President is the only president in the world whose parliament gulps 75% of the national budget as alleged by the CBN Gov. yet they still soak themselves in $625m bribery scandal.
Jonathan has not even initiated let alone fulfilling a single campaign promises except the one that he needs to surround himself with brain dead women in his cabinet.


Nigerians say thank you Sir, for your 6 wasted years of leadership.

FELLOW NIGERIANS, IS THIS THE PRESIDENT YOU DESERVE?

May the Judgment of God not befall us and our families if with our votes we deliberately return a Govt of Hunger, corruption and death to the Nigerian people. Kindly distribute through your BBM and Whatsapp contacts, enough is enough!!



November 2014, Jonathan shocked Nigerians with the news that Boko haram has taken control of 6 towns in 4 LGA’s the height of incompetence in balkanizing the Nigerian state, a week later, Nigerians were blown away by series of austerity measures handed to them for their stupidity in 2011.

The naira was devalued at the pretext of drop in oil prices but Nigerians never asked why the Naira never appreciated when the oil price was increasing?
If the foreign reserve were not stolen, Nigeria would have weathered the storm for at least 6months like we did during the global melt down of 2004 and 2008, unfortunately, the incompetence of the Jonathan administration has brought grave consequence on the Nigerian people, Inflation and high cost of energy are likely consequences.

According to Will Ross of the BBC “He said he hoped a parliamentary investigation would also find out why the country's Excess Crude Account had fallen from $11.5bn to under $2.5bn in a year - arguing that Nigeria's savings are a vital buffer against any drop in the global oil price and without this "rainy day" account, the economy is vulnerable and exposed.

October 2014; Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the Federal republic of Nigeria uses a militant Asari Dokubo for black market gun running, evident from the grounding and seizure of over $10m by the South African authorities.
September, 2014, The Nigerian Government admitted ferrying over $10m in a private jet for arms procurement, where do we draw the line between money laundering and arms procurement? I asked myself about the recent helos that was delivered by Russia recently if it was purchased in the same manner, agree with me or not, Jonathan is neck deep not just in corruption but money laundering.

August 2014: As a result of the unabated corruption in the Nigerian Military, Mutiny of July gave rise to Boko haram declaring a caliphate on Nigerian Soil, Gentlemen and Ladies, Jonathan Has once again made a history of Incompetence. Never in the history of Nigeria have we ceded territories to bandits.


July 2014: saw a president who went to sleep while neighboring West African countries battled with the Ebola virus, his negligence paid off when Patrick Sawyer brought the deadly virus to Nigeria unabated. Since August 2012, when the Ebola outbreak began, The Nigerian govt had no single emergency response plan in place.
$11m emergency fund and N480m budgeted for the control of infectious diseases in the 2013 budget never got to the Lagos state government, the Nigerian Ebola Epicenter.
Still in June, we saw the worst abuse of his Royal majesties powers when he barred APC Governors from attending a rally in Ekiti state with soldiers, meanwhile Boko Haram is still having a field day in the North.
The senate revealed to Nigerians how the president Mis appropriated over 685b kerosene subsidy fund


May 2014: [/b]left us with this shocking statement
“Jonathan, who was asked to comment on the allegations of corrupt practices leveled against some of his ministers, had said that nobody was above mistakes and that if he were to be acting based on reports on each of them, “no one will stay for more than six months in office.” [b]Mere stealing we call corruption"
Still in the same month after the corrupt tales of embezzlement and diversion of military budget, the clueless one finally offered Amnesty to a terrorist group, the first of its kind, in the world.
An Indication that the Jonathan’s administration is run by a den of thieves.

April 2014: reminded us the climax of Jonathan’s administration where he went on a jamboree while book haram held over 200 young girls, hostage,
April never ended before the Dizeani madueke’s 10billion naira scam reached a climax.

March 2014: just before the centenary celebration where Abacha of all people was a beneficiary, scores of Innocent school children were murdered in Adamawa sate.

Feb 2014: saw the illegal suspension of the CBN Gov.at a time the nation was in dire need of foreign direct investment, the Kidnap of the president’s foster father is a realistic score card on his strides on security.
January 2014, a presidential committee was set up to investigate the October scandal of stella odua who came with a guilty verdict, yet she kept her job.

December 2013: ushered the yuletide of Obasanjo’s “before it is too late”, several corruption allegations and the extremism of the Jonathan’s administration, the impunity of plundering the people’ s common wealth and the tenacity of talking drums like Abati who have earned a reputation in insulting the sensibilities of Nigerians.10 bullet proof vehicles purchased by DICON for its top brass

November 2013: the CBN Governor raised an alarm that under Jonathan’s watch, the NNPC diverted $49billion dollars, fellow Nigerians, are we not tired of condoning corruption?

October 2013: ushered a month of corruption coronation in Jonathan’s camp, where the Aviation minister coerced the NCAA to purchase 2 fairly used armored 2008 BMW to the tune of $800,000 each.

September 2013: President Jonathan took a record breaking 600 men entourage for the UN General assembly in New york

August 2013: After the billions of dollars spent in revamping the nation’s airports, skytrax world airport ranking for Africa showed Nigeria didn’t make it to top 10 in Africa neither did it make it top 100th place in the world. Whereas Ethiopia and Mauritania made it to position 9th and 8th respectively, what a shame.

July 2013: transparency international rated Nigeria as the 8th most corrupt country in the world.

June 2013: World Bank appraised him thus;

“Nevertheless, improvements in social welfare indicators have been much slower than would be expected in the context of this growth. Poverty reduction and job creation have not kept pace with population growth, implying social distress for an increasing number of Nigerians. Progress toward the fulfillment of many of the Millennium Development Goals has been slow, and the country ranked 153 out of 186 countries in the 2013 United Nations Human Development Index” the World Bank said.



May 2013: The president after wasting tax payer’s money on an entourage as long as the third mainland bridge went sleeping while his foreign affairs minister represented him in his presence during the AU summit in Addis ababa.
Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan's office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used.

No actual health-care facility nationwide had as many, and in fact a few still have none at all. But as soon as a Nigerian newspaper took a photo of the ambulances and published a story about them, they suddenly disappeared -- probably to an underground garage.

March, 2013: we witnessed the height of moral bankruptcy when Mr President granted presidential pardon to the biggest criminal in the history of our democracy, Alamesigha to prepare him for a senatorial seat.

February 2013: amidst the short fall in crude prices, the president smuggled into the 2013 budget a 2bn appropriation fund for the office of the first lady

February 2013: the office of the presidency denied vehemently that the first lady was on vacation in Germany only for them to organize a survival party with tax payer’s money. Is this the kind of leader you want to hold to his words?

In January 2013: the erst while madam due process and former minister for education challenged the charlatans of jonathans’ administration to a debate on accountability of $67b as expected, honorable cowards and pen thieves, absconded as usual


November 2012: President Jonathan approved 2.2bn naira for the construction of a banquet hall in the villa. At a time our debt profile was all time high

As commander in chief, he stood dumb while a military helicopter was used for "kabu-kabu" at oronto douglas father’s burial that error in judgment alone claimed the life of a sitting Governor. and the most brilliant NSA Nigeria has ever produced.

October 2012: blatantly refusing to appeal the ICJ’s decision on ceding bakassi, thereby throwing Millions of Bakkasi indigenes into pandemonium

refusing to cut down on foreign trips and cost of Governance, contrary to his Nationwide address of 7th Jan 2012.


October 2012: Mr president’s administration spent 1.5 billion to patch the 3rd mainland bridge, 4 months later, triple of that amount was expended again on maintenance alone, Talk about waste and incompetence

August 2012 : He said our foreign reserve is 42billion usd , is that not only on iweala's notepad?
How can you have external debt of 48bn usd and come home to deceive us that we have reserves?
How much services that 48bn plus interest annually? Nearly 25% of 48bn.


August 2012: Under his watch militants earn 10% of the Nation's revenue, $22.5m, $9m and $12.5m for tompolo, Ateke and Asari as national honors.

He twisted facts during the Independence Day speech on his fight on corruption, in contrast to what the transparency international claimed.
By august 2012, 2012 budget implementation was just 13%

over 5, ooo Nigerian lives gone, Mr president is still trading words and negotiating with boko haram, we remain grateful that a quasi state of emergency came to be, at least I cant imagine an SOE where the State Govs sit tight to control state funds while the FG fight their battle.

July 2012: its 3yrs gone and he is yet to commission from scratch a new power plant worst still fired the only human being in his cabinet who knows his onions in the power sector.

July 2012: Mr President earned a congratulatory message for implementing local content policy by importing 200 luxury brands at the cost of over 13.5 million each for a 4 day first ladies summit. While our manufacturing industries beg for patronage.

June 2012: Almost all teaching hospitals in Nigeria have no functional dialysis machine, the most sought of this equipment cost just 5m naira. Statistics has it that more than 60,000 Nigerians die yearly of a kidney related ailment, however, he jets out with his cohorts to seek medical help elsewhere.

ferma is seriously patching federal highways with a budget of over 80 billion naira, there is no coordination between, the MND, NDDC and Federal ministry of works on road maintenance, same contract is awarded over and over before the job is done.

JUNE 2012: Under his watch, the giant of oil and gas reserves is undergoing its worst energy crisis in the world.

tanker drivers alone can cripple his supply network as they wish not to talk of ordinary Niger republic coming to our rescue via imports.

In case you have not heard, Nigeria is very close to Afghanistan on security progress under Jonathan's watch.

June 2012: Education is in crisis. With adult literacy at 57 per cent, overall illiteracy at 66 per cent and more than 10 million out of the 30 million children of primary school age not in school, no serious government should be comfortable. When 40 million adults in a population of 170 million are illiterate, the country is ranked 161 out of 180 countries in the United Nations Comparative Index of Literacy 2012, and has an unemployment rate of 23.7 per cent,
it’s no longer news that only 26% of school leavers gain admission into the universities and only 5% are employed after school thanks to ASUU’s 6 months strike.

June 2012: Mr president’s economic blind men have blessed us with all time high of 37.5% inflation though his mickey mouse cbn governor is still claiming 28%, wondering what he will be claiming now that all bankers are at home, naira devalued, unemployment on the rise etc He still maintains a single digit inflation on paper, I dey laugh.


Mr president is the only Nigerian president that has not initiated a successful programme even Abacha did better with ptf while IBB with FSP and MAMSA, Mr president is still confused with ''YOU WIN''and SURE-P, with zero benefit to the Nigerian people.
on that same vein, Nigeria has the second record high job cuts within the last 2yrs, if in doubt ask the bankers and manufacturing industries.
before his ascension into power, the naira was in a sorry state of 150 to 1 dollar today, Jonathan has handed us an unstable 182 to 1 dollar

June 2012: The dana crash is a testimony that Mr president’s aviation is comatose, not even the attorney general could challenge the allegations of the dana staff in court, in a national disaster of that magnitude?
The girl could have served as a prime witness in a class action against dana
Less than 6months of inconclusive investigations, DANA air hit the Tarmac again.

Still on military, Nigeria has the most under educated junior military officers, before you ask how, Mr president is too lazy to ask him self why imo with highest national examination enrollments still have the least NDA and police academy enrollments, while borno and zamfara as educationally less privileged, have higher quota than Delta and Anambra put together in military enrollments. Nepotism and corruption at its best
Mr President is the only head of state in the world whose wife is a ministry of its own.



January 2012: Under Mr president’s watch, a 250bilion subsidy programme rose to 2 trillion naira yet no arrest, no conviction, no sack, the best miserable Nigerians could get was an AWOL attorney general after 7days of protests. Height of incompetence and corruption.

Mr President is the only president in the world whose parliament gulps 75% of the national budget as alleged by the CBN Gov. yet they still soak themselves in $625m bribery scandal.
Jonathan has not even initiated let alone fulfilling a single campaign promises except the one that he needs to surround himself with brain dead women in his cabinet.


Nigerians say thank you Sir, for your 6 wasted years of leadership.

Less than two weeks from national polls, Nigeria’s ruling party is facing unprecedented shifts in the politics of religion that could spell trouble for the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan.

While he may still be the favourite on February 14, experts said two key factors could remove his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power for the first time since the end of military rule in 1999.

First, opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari, a northern Muslim, has gained surprising traction in the mostly Christian south, despite sustained PDP efforts to paint him as a religious extremist.

The PDP could also suffer a historically lopsided defeat in the Muslim-majority north, where the party has previously drawn considerable support, even when a Christian was at the top of the ticket.

– ‘Surpassing religion’ –

Buhari, a former army general who led a military government for 20 months from December 1983, is hardly the dream candidate for many in the south, experts said.

Some southerners have an entrenched antipathy towards Muslims from the Hausa ethnic group, members of which plundered the country as military rulers through much of the 1980s and 1990s.

PDP efforts to brand Buhari as an extremist devoted to Islamic law have also been successful, said John Campbell, a former US ambassador to Nigeria, now with the Council on Foreign Relations.

“It is grossly unfair. I know him. He is not an extremist but these things resonate,” he told AFP.

Buhari, from the All Progressives Congress (APC) party, is making his fourth run at the presidency and has been billed as Nigeria’s chief anti-corruption crusader, helping him attract nationwide support.

Analyst Jibrin Ibrahim agreed that for the first time in religiously divided Nigeria, governance could be “surpassing religion” as a campaign issue.

“The issue of religion is very present in all our elections and will be in this one,” said Ibrahim, from the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja.

“What I think is new about these elections is that it is really about the failures of Jonathan.

“There are voters in the south who don’t particularly like Buhari but they have been extremely disappointed with the last four years and that could shift support to Buhari.”

Jonathan has been heavily criticised for his apparent failure to reduce graft in Africa’s most populous country and top economy, where billions of dollars in public money have been stolen, especially in the oil sector.

Boko Haram’s brutal uprising has also worsened each year under Jonathan’s watch, with more than 13,000 people killed since 2009.

– Rotation in ‘disarray’ –

The PDP has won all four presidential elections since 1999 with support from both the north and the south, which it secured through an unwritten power-sharing agreement within the party.

Power brokers in both regions “were comfortable using the PDP as a venue through which they would arrive at a rough consensus” because it was understood that each side would get its turn in charge, Campbell said.

The 2010 death in office of Jonathan’s predecessor, Hausa-Muslim Umaru Musa Yar’Adua “put that agreement in disarray”, analyst Idiyat Hassan wrote on the African Arguments blog.

Jonathan’s rise from the vice-presidency and his refusal to stand aside for a northerner in 2011 caused initial cracks in the PDP’s national alliance.

His insistence on running for a second term in 2015 split the party, with the north emerging as “the great losers” of the once dominant PDP coalition, Campbell said.

Several key northern politicians have quit the PDP and joined the APC over the last two years, including Rabiu Kwankwaso, governor of the north’s most populous state, Kano, which has five million registered voters.

Jonathan beat Buhari by roughly 10 million votes in 2011, winning roughly eight million in the north and the religiously divided central states.

If Jonathan’s support in the north collapses and Buhari makes inroads in the south, analysts said the president could lose.

Buhari is helped by the fact that he is leading a united opposition, unlike in 2011 when rival candidates peeled off more than three million votes.

– Looking past religion –

Some argue that parties spend too much effort striving for ethno-religious balance, noting that the most popular presidential ticket since independence in 1960 — the 1993 campaign of the Social Democratic Party — contained two Muslims.

Moshood Abiola and running mate Baba Gana Kingibe were easily on track to win the polls before military ruler Ibrahim Babangida nullified the vote.

Many commentators were clamouring for popular Lagos state governor Babatunde Fashola, a Muslim, to head the APC ticket in 2015, but the party decided it needed a Hausa candidate to defeat Jonathan.

For Dapo Thomas, political scientist at Lagos State University, the emphasis on a candidate’s religion and tribe has “driven merit to the backseat”.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/buhari-not-extremist-ex-us-ambassador/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter#sthash.PYldiPE9.dpuf

former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, was a passenger of a “sinking ship.”

Fani-Kayode, who stated this on Channels Television programme, ‘Politics Today’, was reacting to the recent comments credited to Metuh about the manifesto of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the APC, said he did not expect the PDP spokesman to say anything different from what he had said as “he represents a sinking ship”.

He described the PDP as a sad testimony of everything that is wrong with the country.

According to him, the PDP that existed during the administration of former President, Olusegun Obasanjo was the good old PDP, adding that Nigeria was debt free for the first time in many years at the end of the Obasanjo’s administration “but the country had since the Goodluck Jonathan era gone back to debts”........

http://dailypost.ng/2014/03/11/pdp-sinking-ship-fani-kayode/

NIGERIANS WAKE UP!
PRESIDENT JONATHAN EXPOSED!!
PLEASE HEAR THE PROFOUND ASSESSMENTS BY PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S CAMPAIGN “MARKETER” (FEMI FANIKAYODE) THE LAST TIME HE DUMPED PDP for APC:

1. ON PDP.
(a) “Frankly speaking the PDP has become a party that is beyond redemption and the removal of Tukur cannot change that. I say this because no sensible person will go back to a stinking carcass simply because the head of the dead animal has been cut off and thrown away. A carcass remains a carcass whether you cut off it’s head, legs or any other part of it’s body or not. Whichever way, it remains as dead as a dodo and it only awaits a formal burial. The truth is that the vultures are already feeding fat on the rotting and decaying cadavar of the PDP and whether anyone likes to hear it or not the truth is that that party can never be whole again. As I said eight months ago it is a party that has been rejected by God and whose leaders are suffering God’s judgement for their unjust, gluttonous, wicked, foul and evil ways”.

(b) “(PDP is a) self-evident Sinking Ship.”
(c) “I am not sure that great men have respect for the party again. I AM NOT SURE FORMER PRESIDENT, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO IS RESPECTING THE PARTY AGAIN and many others, so I had to bid the party bye-bye.” (Emphasis mine).
(d) “PDP AS WE ONCE KNEW HER HAS GONE FOREVER. THE SHIP HAS HIT THE ROCKS AND SHE HAS SUNK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. SHE IS DEAD AND BURIED AND MY PRAYER IS THAT HER SOUL RESTS IN PERFECT PEACE.” (Emphasis mine).

2. ON OBASANJO’S LETTER TO JONATHAN:
“OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s chapter with his letter. JONATHAN IS FINISHED- MARK MY WORDS. Abati should shut up and let his boss speak for himself on this one.
The Ebora Owu has spoken and the issues that he has raised are too serious to be ignored or to be responded to with amatuerish and cheeky insults and slurs from a mere staff of the Presidency.
The President should find the courage to personally answer the charges and address the message rather than get his aides to attack the messenger. As Baba said, Jonathan is “bleeding Nigeria to death”. It is time for change.
God used Obasanjo to put Jonathan in power and, by His grace,He will use that same Obasanjo to remove him.” (Emphasis mine).

3. ON ALL PROGRESSIVES PARTY: A. P.C.
(a) “I don’t know what the minds of Nigerians are. All I know is that the level of discontentment for the government of the PDP in this country is unprecedented. Not only do I know that, I also know that in terms of the quality of leadership as far as I am concerned, if you compare the leadership of today’s PDP to APC leadership, there is absolutely no comparison. IT IS TIME FOR HANGE IN THIS COUNTRY….as far as I am concerned, they present a far more credible leadership than we have in the PDP today”. (Emphasis mine).
(b) “What Nigerians need now is to join hands with the APC Leaders, Major Gen. Mohammadu Buhari and Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu to move the nation forward”. (Emphasis mine).
4. ON PRESIDENT JONATHAN
(a)“THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF” (Emphasis mine).
(b) “A PRESIDENT WHO PRIDES HIMSELF ON HIS WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE AND WHOSE LOVE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND STRANGE WOMEN KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND HAS NO ENDS”. (Emphasis mine).
(c) “A President who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own country…abandoned his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith, cowers before his own officials…scorns the international community and BREAK HIS SOLEMN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE”. (Emphasis mine).
(d) “May God bring us a real leader that can save our nation and MAY HE TAKE AWAY THIS ONE WHO FEELS NO PAIN AND HAS NO EMPATHY WHEN NIGERIAN BLOOD, NAY EVEN THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT CHILDREN, IS SHED WITH IMPUNITY”. (Emphasis mine).
(e) “When the President is defeated, he will declare himself winner, the same way it happened in the NGF (Nigerian Governor’s Forum). HE WILL TRY TO SPLIT THE COUNTRY THE SAME WAY HE DID TO THE NGF”. (Emphasis mine).
(f) “IN 2015,IF THE PDP LOSES TO APC AND THEY ARE TRYING TO PLAY THIS KIND OF GAME WITH NIGERIANS, THEN THEY WILL KNOW WE ALL OWN THIS COUNTRY.” (Emphasis mine).
(g) ”THE PRESIDENT IS LEADING NIGERIA ON THE ROAD TO HELL. The madness, the attacks, the killings, the insults, the persecution, the wickedness, the impunity and the intimidation has to stop forthwith or else the consequences will be grave for the continued unity of our country. “(Emphasis mine).
A. WE CAN NOW CLEARLY SEE THAT WHEN A “DOG GOES BACK TO IT’S VOMIT” SUCH A DOG IS UNFIT AS IT MAY INFEST THE HOUSE WITH EPIDEMIC DISEASES. CREDIBILITY IS THE USEFULNESS OF ANY LEADER. A MAN WHO LACKS CREDIBILITY IS FOR EVER BEREFT OF HONOR, MORAL CONSISTENCY AND RELIGIOUS BALANCE.
B. WE CAN NOW PALPABLY REALIZE THAT PDP “IS DEAD AND BURIED” AND “HAS BECOME A PARTY THAT IS BEYOND REDEMPTION”.
C. WE CAN NOW FRANKLY DEDUCT THAT A.P.C. HAS “NO COMPARISON” AND THAT “WHAT NIGERIANS NEED NOW IS TO JOIN HANDS WITH THE APC LEADERS, MAJOR GEN. MOHAMMADU BUHARI ….TO MOVE THE NATION FORWARD” BECAUSE “IT IS TIME FOR HANGE IN THIS COUNTRY”.
D. WE CAN NOW CONCLUDE THAT “THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF” BECAUSE:
1. “…. HIS WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE … LOVE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND STRANGE WOMEN KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND HAS NO ENDS”.

2. HE “….HAS ABDICATED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES, DESTROYED HIS OWN POLITICAL PARTY, DIVIDED HIS OWN COUNTRY…ABANDONED HIS OWN PEOPLE, BROUGHT RIDICULE TO HIS OWN FAITH, COWERS BEFORE HIS OWN OFFICIALS…SCORNS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND BREAK HIS SOLEMN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE”.

3. “HE WILL TRY TO SPLIT THE COUNTRY THE SAME WAY HE DID TO THE NGF.”

4. ”THE PRESIDENT IS LEADING NIGERIA ON THE ROAD TO HELL”. AND

E. WE CAN NOW SAFELY AND PROUDLY SUBMIT THAT TO GET OUT OF THIS ABYSMAL GULAG OF CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, GROSS INCOMPETENCE, WANTON SHEDDING OF BLOOD, AS WELL AS ACUTE DISPLAY OF UNPRECEDENTED MISGOVERNANCE, NIGERIANS MUST VOTE OUT JONATHAN OF PDP AND ELECT BUHARI OF A.P.C. AS NIGERIAN PRESIDENT.
LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

NIGERIANS WAKE UP!
PRESIDENT JONATHAN EXPOSED!!
PLEASE HEAR THE PROFOUND ASSESSMENTS BY PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S CAMPAIGN “MARKETER” (FEMI FANIKAYODE) THE LAST TIME HE DUMPED PDP for APC:

1. ON PDP.
(a) “Frankly speaking the PDP has become a party that is beyond redemption and the removal of Tukur cannot change that. I say this because no sensible person will go back to a stinking carcass simply because the head of the dead animal has been cut off and thrown away. A carcass remains a carcass whether you cut off it’s head, legs or any other part of it’s body or not. Whichever way, it remains as dead as a dodo and it only awaits a formal burial. The truth is that the vultures are already feeding fat on the rotting and decaying cadavar of the PDP and whether anyone likes to hear it or not the truth is that that party can never be whole again. As I said eight months ago it is a party that has been rejected by God and whose leaders are suffering God’s judgement for their unjust, gluttonous, wicked, foul and evil ways”.

(b) “(PDP is a) self-evident Sinking Ship.”
(c) “I am not sure that great men have respect for the party again. I AM NOT SURE FORMER PRESIDENT, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO IS RESPECTING THE PARTY AGAIN and many others, so I had to bid the party bye-bye.” (Emphasis mine).
(d) “PDP AS WE ONCE KNEW HER HAS GONE FOREVER. THE SHIP HAS HIT THE ROCKS AND SHE HAS SUNK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. SHE IS DEAD AND BURIED AND MY PRAYER IS THAT HER SOUL RESTS IN PERFECT PEACE.” (Emphasis mine).

2. ON OBASANJO’S LETTER TO JONATHAN:
“OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s chapter with his letter. JONATHAN IS FINISHED- MARK MY WORDS. Abati should shut up and let his boss speak for himself on this one.
The Ebora Owu has spoken and the issues that he has raised are too serious to be ignored or to be responded to with amatuerish and cheeky insults and slurs from a mere staff of the Presidency.
The President should find the courage to personally answer the charges and address the message rather than get his aides to attack the messenger. As Baba said, Jonathan is “bleeding Nigeria to death”. It is time for change.
God used Obasanjo to put Jonathan in power and, by His grace,He will use that same Obasanjo to remove him.” (Emphasis mine).

3. ON ALL PROGRESSIVES PARTY: A. P.C.
(a) “I don’t know what the minds of Nigerians are. All I know is that the level of discontentment for the government of the PDP in this country is unprecedented. Not only do I know that, I also know that in terms of the quality of leadership as far as I am concerned, if you compare the leadership of today’s PDP to APC leadership, there is absolutely no comparison. IT IS TIME FOR HANGE IN THIS COUNTRY….as far as I am concerned, they present a far more credible leadership than we have in the PDP today”. (Emphasis mine).
(b) “What Nigerians need now is to join hands with the APC Leaders, Major Gen. Mohammadu Buhari and Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu to move the nation forward”. (Emphasis mine).
4. ON PRESIDENT JONATHAN
(a)“THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF” (Emphasis mine).
(b) “A PRESIDENT WHO PRIDES HIMSELF ON HIS WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE AND WHOSE LOVE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND STRANGE WOMEN KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND HAS NO ENDS”. (Emphasis mine).
(c) “A President who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own country…abandoned his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith, cowers before his own officials…scorns the international community and BREAK HIS SOLEMN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE”. (Emphasis mine).
(d) “May God bring us a real leader that can save our nation and MAY HE TAKE AWAY THIS ONE WHO FEELS NO PAIN AND HAS NO EMPATHY WHEN NIGERIAN BLOOD, NAY EVEN THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT CHILDREN, IS SHED WITH IMPUNITY”. (Emphasis mine).
(e) “When the President is defeated, he will declare himself winner, the same way it happened in the NGF (Nigerian Governor’s Forum). HE WILL TRY TO SPLIT THE COUNTRY THE SAME WAY HE DID TO THE NGF”. (Emphasis mine).
(f) “IN 2015,IF THE PDP LOSES TO APC AND THEY ARE TRYING TO PLAY THIS KIND OF GAME WITH NIGERIANS, THEN THEY WILL KNOW WE ALL OWN THIS COUNTRY.” (Emphasis mine).
(g) ”THE PRESIDENT IS LEADING NIGERIA ON THE ROAD TO HELL. The madness, the attacks, the killings, the insults, the persecution, the wickedness, the impunity and the intimidation has to stop forthwith or else the consequences will be grave for the continued unity of our country. “(Emphasis mine).
A. WE CAN NOW CLEARLY SEE THAT WHEN A “DOG GOES BACK TO IT’S VOMIT” SUCH A DOG IS UNFIT AS IT MAY INFEST THE HOUSE WITH EPIDEMIC DISEASES. CREDIBILITY IS THE USEFULNESS OF ANY LEADER. A MAN WHO LACKS CREDIBILITY IS FOR EVER BEREFT OF HONOR, MORAL CONSISTENCY AND RELIGIOUS BALANCE.
B. WE CAN NOW PALPABLY REALIZE THAT PDP “IS DEAD AND BURIED” AND “HAS BECOME A PARTY THAT IS BEYOND REDEMPTION”.
C. WE CAN NOW FRANKLY DEDUCT THAT A.P.C. HAS “NO COMPARISON” AND THAT “WHAT NIGERIANS NEED NOW IS TO JOIN HANDS WITH THE APC LEADERS, MAJOR GEN. MOHAMMADU BUHARI ….TO MOVE THE NATION FORWARD” BECAUSE “IT IS TIME FOR HANGE IN THIS COUNTRY”.
D. WE CAN NOW CONCLUDE THAT “THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF” BECAUSE:
1. “…. HIS WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE … LOVE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND STRANGE WOMEN KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND HAS NO ENDS”.

2. HE “….HAS ABDICATED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES, DESTROYED HIS OWN POLITICAL PARTY, DIVIDED HIS OWN COUNTRY…ABANDONED HIS OWN PEOPLE, BROUGHT RIDICULE TO HIS OWN FAITH, COWERS BEFORE HIS OWN OFFICIALS…SCORNS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND BREAK HIS SOLEMN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE”.

3. “HE WILL TRY TO SPLIT THE COUNTRY THE SAME WAY HE DID TO THE NGF.”

4. ”THE PRESIDENT IS LEADING NIGERIA ON THE ROAD TO HELL”. AND

E. WE CAN NOW SAFELY AND PROUDLY SUBMIT THAT TO GET OUT OF THIS ABYSMAL GULAG OF CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, GROSS INCOMPETENCE, WANTON SHEDDING OF BLOOD, AS WELL AS ACUTE DISPLAY OF UNPRECEDENTED MISGOVERNANCE, NIGERIANS MUST VOTE OUT JONATHAN OF PDP AND ELECT BUHARI OF A.P.C. AS NIGERIAN PRESIDENT.
LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

NIGERIANS WAKE UP!
PRESIDENT JONATHAN EXPOSED!!
PLEASE HEAR THE PROFOUND ASSESSMENTS BY PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S CAMPAIGN “MARKETER” (FEMI FANIKAYODE) THE LAST TIME HE DUMPED PDP for APC:

1. ON PDP.
(a) “Frankly speaking the PDP has become a party that is beyond redemption and the removal of Tukur cannot change that. I say this because no sensible person will go back to a stinking carcass simply because the head of the dead animal has been cut off and thrown away. A carcass remains a carcass whether you cut off it’s head, legs or any other part of it’s body or not. Whichever way, it remains as dead as a dodo and it only awaits a formal burial. The truth is that the vultures are already feeding fat on the rotting and decaying cadavar of the PDP and whether anyone likes to hear it or not the truth is that that party can never be whole again. As I said eight months ago it is a party that has been rejected by God and whose leaders are suffering God’s judgement for their unjust, gluttonous, wicked, foul and evil ways”.

(b) “(PDP is a) self-evident Sinking Ship.”
(c) “I am not sure that great men have respect for the party again. I AM NOT SURE FORMER PRESIDENT, CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO IS RESPECTING THE PARTY AGAIN and many others, so I had to bid the party bye-bye.” (Emphasis mine).
(d) “PDP AS WE ONCE KNEW HER HAS GONE FOREVER. THE SHIP HAS HIT THE ROCKS AND SHE HAS SUNK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. SHE IS DEAD AND BURIED AND MY PRAYER IS THAT HER SOUL RESTS IN PERFECT PEACE.” (Emphasis mine).

2. ON OBASANJO’S LETTER TO JONATHAN:
“OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s chapter with his letter. JONATHAN IS FINISHED- MARK MY WORDS. Abati should shut up and let his boss speak for himself on this one.
The Ebora Owu has spoken and the issues that he has raised are too serious to be ignored or to be responded to with amatuerish and cheeky insults and slurs from a mere staff of the Presidency.
The President should find the courage to personally answer the charges and address the message rather than get his aides to attack the messenger. As Baba said, Jonathan is “bleeding Nigeria to death”. It is time for change.
God used Obasanjo to put Jonathan in power and, by His grace,He will use that same Obasanjo to remove him.” (Emphasis mine).

3. ON ALL PROGRESSIVES PARTY: A. P.C.
(a) “I don’t know what the minds of Nigerians are. All I know is that the level of discontentment for the government of the PDP in this country is unprecedented. Not only do I know that, I also know that in terms of the quality of leadership as far as I am concerned, if you compare the leadership of today’s PDP to APC leadership, there is absolutely no comparison. IT IS TIME FOR HANGE IN THIS COUNTRY….as far as I am concerned, they present a far more credible leadership than we have in the PDP today”. (Emphasis mine).
(b) “What Nigerians need now is to join hands with the APC Leaders, Major Gen. Mohammadu Buhari and Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu to move the nation forward”. (Emphasis mine).
4. ON PRESIDENT JONATHAN
(a)“THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF” (Emphasis mine).
(b) “A PRESIDENT WHO PRIDES HIMSELF ON HIS WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE AND WHOSE LOVE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND STRANGE WOMEN KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND HAS NO ENDS”. (Emphasis mine).
(c) “A President who has abdicated his responsibilities, destroyed his own political party, divided his own country…abandoned his own people, brought ridicule to his own faith, cowers before his own officials…scorns the international community and BREAK HIS SOLEMN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE”. (Emphasis mine).
(d) “May God bring us a real leader that can save our nation and MAY HE TAKE AWAY THIS ONE WHO FEELS NO PAIN AND HAS NO EMPATHY WHEN NIGERIAN BLOOD, NAY EVEN THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT CHILDREN, IS SHED WITH IMPUNITY”. (Emphasis mine).
(e) “When the President is defeated, he will declare himself winner, the same way it happened in the NGF (Nigerian Governor’s Forum). HE WILL TRY TO SPLIT THE COUNTRY THE SAME WAY HE DID TO THE NGF”. (Emphasis mine).
(f) “IN 2015,IF THE PDP LOSES TO APC AND THEY ARE TRYING TO PLAY THIS KIND OF GAME WITH NIGERIANS, THEN THEY WILL KNOW WE ALL OWN THIS COUNTRY.” (Emphasis mine).
(g) ”THE PRESIDENT IS LEADING NIGERIA ON THE ROAD TO HELL. The madness, the attacks, the killings, the insults, the persecution, the wickedness, the impunity and the intimidation has to stop forthwith or else the consequences will be grave for the continued unity of our country. “(Emphasis mine).
A. WE CAN NOW CLEARLY SEE THAT WHEN A “DOG GOES BACK TO IT’S VOMIT” SUCH A DOG IS UNFIT AS IT MAY INFEST THE HOUSE WITH EPIDEMIC DISEASES. CREDIBILITY IS THE USEFULNESS OF ANY LEADER. A MAN WHO LACKS CREDIBILITY IS FOR EVER BEREFT OF HONOR, MORAL CONSISTENCY AND RELIGIOUS BALANCE.
B. WE CAN NOW PALPABLY REALIZE THAT PDP “IS DEAD AND BURIED” AND “HAS BECOME A PARTY THAT IS BEYOND REDEMPTION”.
C. WE CAN NOW FRANKLY DEDUCT THAT A.P.C. HAS “NO COMPARISON” AND THAT “WHAT NIGERIANS NEED NOW IS TO JOIN HANDS WITH THE APC LEADERS, MAJOR GEN. MOHAMMADU BUHARI ….TO MOVE THE NATION FORWARD” BECAUSE “IT IS TIME FOR HANGE IN THIS COUNTRY”.
D. WE CAN NOW CONCLUDE THAT “THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE IS THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF” BECAUSE:
1. “…. HIS WEAKNESS AND INCOMPETENCE … LOVE OF FALSE PROPHETS AND STRANGE WOMEN KNOWS NO BOUNDS AND HAS NO ENDS”.

2. HE “….HAS ABDICATED HIS RESPONSIBILITIES, DESTROYED HIS OWN POLITICAL PARTY, DIVIDED HIS OWN COUNTRY…ABANDONED HIS OWN PEOPLE, BROUGHT RIDICULE TO HIS OWN FAITH, COWERS BEFORE HIS OWN OFFICIALS…SCORNS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND BREAK HIS SOLEMN OATH TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE”.

3. “HE WILL TRY TO SPLIT THE COUNTRY THE SAME WAY HE DID TO THE NGF.”

4. ”THE PRESIDENT IS LEADING NIGERIA ON THE ROAD TO HELL”. AND

E. WE CAN NOW SAFELY AND PROUDLY SUBMIT THAT TO GET OUT OF THIS ABYSMAL GULAG OF CORRUPTION OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, GROSS INCOMPETENCE, WANTON SHEDDING OF BLOOD, AS WELL AS ACUTE DISPLAY OF UNPRECEDENTED MISGOVERNANCE, NIGERIANS MUST VOTE OUT JONATHAN OF PDP AND ELECT BUHARI OF A.P.C. AS NIGERIAN PRESIDENT.
LONG LIVE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has reiterated its commitment to the conduct of general elections in February, in reaction to the call for postponement by the National Security Adviser, NSA, Dasuki Sambo.

At a press briefing in London on Thursday, Mr. Dasuki had called for postponement of elections, according to him, to enable INEC distribute Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, to registered voters who are yet to collect.

The chairman of INEC, Attahiru Jega, said Friday that the commission remains ready to go ahead with the elections as planned.

Speaking at the launch of Mitigation Of Violence In Elections (MOVE) project by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, IFES, Mr. Jega said while he would not respond to media reports of Mr. Dasuki’s call, he could confirm that INEC is determined to hold elections in February.

“We have assured that the issue of concern, namely distribution of PVCs, will be addressed before elections; and the cards will be made for all registered voters. As evidenced in our preparations, we are ready to hold elections in February,” said the INEC Chairman.

He added that over 40 million cards had already been made available, while assuring that the remaining ones will be delivered before the end of January.

He explained that the delay over complete availability of the PVCs results from the fact that some cards are yet to be produced due to late registration during the continuous voters registration, CVR, exercise.

Mr. Jega’s Chief Press Secretary, Kayode Idowu, had earlier expressed the same commitment to PREMIUM TIMES, although he said INEC had not been officially communicated by Mr. Dasuki.

“We are yet to get official correspondence in respect of the reported call for postponement of elections by the NSA. So INEC can’t make decisions based on media report,” Mr. Idowu said Thursday.

“But I can say that INEC is not looking back. We are planning and working to ensure elections hold successfully next month as planned,” Mr. Idowu said.

The call by Mr. Dasuki has been rejected by the opposition All progressives Congress and some civil society groups.

Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room, a coalition of civil society organisations, also rejected the call.

In a statement by its Executive Director, Clement Nwankwo, Situation Room described the call as “an unnecessary interference in the independence of INEC as guaranteed by the 1999 Constitution stating that dates for the elections can only be set by INEC”.

INEC has enhanced access to collection of PVCs by Nigerians, with the decentralisation of the distribution to ward level. The time for collection is now 8.30a.m. to 5.30p.m., Mondays to Saturdays.

Source

Hmmnnnn

Barely 24 hours after releasing Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s 1961 West African School Certificate (WASC) results, the Principal of the Government College, Katsina, Mallam Isyaku Bello, has been receiving death threats.

The source of the threats could not be ascertained last night.

The principal was summoned by his employers, the Katsina State Ministry of Education, in connection with the release of the results, sources close to Mallam Bello said last night.

The embattled principal was said to have explained that he needed to defend the integrity of the college (formerly Provincial Secondary School, Katsina) and not Gen. Buhari.

Bello made distress calls to his friends and relatives, The Nation learnt.

One source said: “Some forces were unhappy with the issuance of results to Gen. Buhari and they have been threatening the principal. They have been calling him names, abusing him. Some were actually threatening to deal with him.

“They told the principal that he ought to have left Buhari to his fate instead of releasing his results.

“Faced with pressure, the principal has reached out to friends and relatives on the threats. He explained that he did so to protect the integrity of the college and not anybody’s.

“We hope that no harm will come upon the principal, who was just doing his job.”

It was unclear as at press time last night whether Bello had reported the threat to the police or not. He did not pick his calls and messages to his telephone were not replied.

A highly-placed source in APC Presidential Campaign Council confirmed the threats.

He said: “This is an unfortunate development if it is true that the principal is really being harassed for doing an official assignment.”

But another source said: the Katsina State Government actually consented to the release of the results by the Ministry of Education in view of the sensitive nature of the issue at hand.

A government source said: “Since the WASC results of Buhari had become political, the position of the government was that the principal ought to have cleared the air after all Buhari is a citizen of the state.

When contacted, the SA Media to Governor Ibrahim Shema, Mr. Lawal Ahmad Matazu, said: ”Is that so? I’m hearing it for the first time from you. I will find out. Thanks.”
http://thenationonlineng.net/new/principal-gets-death-threats-releasing-buharis-results/

Check the map

Broom revolution

FFK......mentally derange

Please read to the end : It was not easy for Lawrence Anini....
It was not easy for Oyenusi....
It was not easy for Shina Rambo....
It was not easy for Alameseigha...
It was not easy for James Ibori....
It was not easy for Bode George....
It was not easy for Farouk Lawan....


Lawrence Anini did it!
Oyenusi did it!
Shina Rambo did it! Alameseigha did it!
James Ibori did it!
Bode George did it!
Forouk Lawan did it!


Now, President Goodluck Jonathan is doing it.....
Mr President, keep stealing the nation is blind because STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION.
And the looting partners with you are far more than the suffering Nigerians who are against you.
This message is proudly sponsored by TheThief Ambassadors of
Nigeria —TAN"

Send to everybody in your contact, maybe it may get to Aso Rock in 48 hours.

Are You Aware?
• That Skye Bank Plc Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni
bought Nigeria's moribund M-TEL/NITEL for
$252M?
Are You Aware?
• That Skye Bank Plc Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni
bought the Ibadan (PHCN) Disco Distribution?
Are You Aware?
• That Skye Bank Plc Chairman, Chief Tunde Ayeni
donated a whopping N2Billion to President
Goodluck's re-election fund on Saturday 20th
December?
Are You Aware?
• That President Goodluck Jonathan just after 2
days of receiving # 2B donation from Skye Bank
Plc chairman, has approved
increase in tariff of PHCN?
......
Its unfortunate that people who supports Jonathan
misrule to continue thinks they are doing Buhari
harm. The only harm being done is to themselves
and every other Nigeria.
By 2019, our country would have been completely
sold to the highest bidder and nothing will be left
for us honest and hard-working Nigerians.
If you hate Buhari because he is a Muslim, at least
look at his Vice, he is a Pastor.
If you hate Buhari because he doesn't have a
"Primary Six certificate", as some are claiming,
look at his Vice, he is a Professor of Law.
If you fear that as a formal military leader, Buhari
may have the tendency of not upholding the rule of
law, then look at his Vice, he is a distinguished
Lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
Even if you think Buhari has nothing to offer, he
cannot be as hopeless corrupt and harmful to
Nigerians as Jonathan's Government.
You have no reason to allow this corrupt
administration to continue till 2019 when you can
booth them out now.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insinuated that the Department of State Services, Deputy Director Public Relations, Marilyn Ogar is poorly-trained and highly politicized after her amateurish presentation of findings against the party.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party described the timing of the release of the ‘findings’ as a plot orchestrated in collusion with the Peoples Democratic Party to distract the APC from its ongoing campaigns for next month’s elections.

“This would have been funny if it were not from a primary domestic intelligence agency saddled with a great responsibility. Can this wishy-washy report stand any serious scrutiny? Can any serious intelligence gathering agency anywhere else in the world take this report seriously? With these kind of findings, one can now understand why Boko Haram has continued to strike at times and places of its own choosing without any prior knowledge by our all-powerful DSS.

“Even the presentation of the report by a poorly-trained and highly-politicized spokesperson of the DSS worsened the so-called findings. Why would the spokesperson of a national agency sound like a megaphone for the ruling party, freely castigating the opposition spokesman and “a number of uninformed members of the public”? Why does she have to go personal in presenting a report that supposedly is in the national interest?

“We have always warned that our democracy is in clear and present danger, not just from desperate politicians, but also from institutions of state that have compromised in their roles and resorted to crass lawlessness. The DSS’ ‘findings’ today have given us another reason to repeat this warning.

“While we are willing to meet the DSS in court, we can confidently say that the ‘confessions’ extracted from the arrested persons, after they were subjected to incredible acts of torture, cannot even stand in any court of law,” APC said.
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