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carzola: If u dont have wat to post go and count thn stars in the sky. GEJ is the best thing to happen to nigeria.. And would continue to be come 2015.

You know when you comment like this I wonder if its grey matter you have in your brain or frozen excreta.

EACH time the wife of the President, Patience Jonathan, hits the road with her long motorcade, including bulletproof and bombproof limousines, or is having a whale of a time at an event, drivers and commuters who find themselves on her routes always have to live with the bitter experience of the encounter. As police empty the roads of traffic, forcing drivers to wait as her glamorous convoy drifts by, motorists are trapped in traffic for hours on end, while social and economic life of the affected community is brought to a halt abruptly.

The recent visit of Mrs. Jonathan to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, in which her security details forcibly grounded the movement of residents, is the latest of such excesses that Nigerians have been forced to endure for the past three years. This impunity must stop. According to newspaper reports, Mrs. Jonathan’s security arrangement paralysed activities in the Port Harcourt Government Reservation Area for the four days of her visit. Armoured personnel carriers were deployed at two points, while gun-wielding operatives manned the points leading to her private residence. Many people missed their appointments because they were prevented from moving in and out of their houses.

When she came to Lagos last year, on a “thank-you visit” to some women groups for electing her husband president, she enacted a similar repulsive scenario. During the visit, Lagos residents were subjected to an unprecedented road blockade, which gave rise to an unnerving five-hour traffic that grounded all human and economic activities. The First Lady was attending that event at Ocean View Restaurant on Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Victoria Island.

Mrs. Jonathan’s misdemeanour, which still resonates more than a year after it happened, forced Governor Babatunde Fashola to lament, “Lagosians were needlessly inconvenienced…. It dawned on me the need for public officers generally to be more sensitive to the people we serve. It is particularly worrisome that this (she) is not an elected person. I think we all must check how security agencies use the movement of high officers, especially VIPs, to disrupt citizens and taxpayers, whose money is used to fuel all the vehicles and all the apparatus that we use to block the roads against them. It should not get to the level that we close the roads in the state because VIPs want to pass.” It cannot be said better.

But not long after the ridiculous show of power in Lagos, Mrs. Jonathan headed for Warri, Delta State, where she also caused hardship to residents through her security arrangements. Needless to say, these foul-ups compound gridlocks on our roads. On a few occasions, the First Lady has also broken protocol. During President Goodluck Jonathan’s visit to the United States in September 2012, she breached protocol by disembarking from the aircraft before the President, and shaking hands with officials waiting on the tarmac while her husband was still coming down from the plane. The First Lady is setting a bad example for wives of governors.

The position of the First Lady in the United States, from where the convention spread to other countries, is not an elected one, carries no official duties, and attracts no salary. But it glows with much glamour and the occupier is expected to handle the position with sublime grace. In the United Kingdom, the role of the Prime Ministerial Consort is not official and as such whoever occupies the office is not given a salary or official duties. Many of them prefer to remain very much in the background. Indeed, the late Denis Thatcher once summed up the role of the ideal prime ministerial spouse as “always present, never there.” This is the ideal.

But operating under the loosely-defined, unconstitutional office of the “First Lady,” Mrs. Jonathan has been bringing the highest office in the land into disrepute since her husband assumed full duties as President in May 2010, by her public conduct. Her behaviour – when there is no reason for it – is leaving many citizens who have had their rights trampled on bitter but helpless.

This is not the practice in civilised societies. The basic requirement of civilised democracy is that everyone plays by the rules and that the rules command public confidence. In October 2011, it was reported that a stunned 27-year-old Indian woman was so agitated that she enquired from David Cameron, who chose to travel in a tube train during rush hour, “Excuse me, are you the Prime Minister?” The Prime Minister was reportedly travelling on the London Underground for an appointment. The United States’ security services offer maximum protection to Michelle Obama while, at the same time, causing minimal inconvenience to other motorists and citizens. It is as outrageous as it is gravely uncivilised for official cortèges to take pleasure in inflicting pains on the people that such officials claim to be serving.

The itinerary of the First Lady can be smoothly planned without compromising her safety and the convenience of the citizens. Mrs. Jonathan must recognise that power is ephemeral and should learn from the past occupants of the office who history does not favourably remember because they did incalculable damage to the image of the First Family. Fashola, who, as a governor, does not use sirens in his limited convoy, and does not harass other road users, offers a useful lesson in public morality and decorum. Even with the aura surrounding the office of President of the United States, whenever Barack Obama is visiting any part of America, information is fully circulated to the locality well ahead of time, and locals are given alternative routes that cause minimum inconveniences to use.

It is President Jonathan’s duty to caution his wife to stop this regime of offensive illegality that has tainted the Presidency and presented Nigeria in a bad light.
http://www.punchng.com/editorial/patience-jonathans-excesses-must-be-curbed/

So just after 30 minutes of your celebrated release from Yaba Psychiatry, your first point of call is to create a profile on nairaland with this crab. I knew your improvement was not kosher.
DEAR ALL, PLEASE IGNORE THIS POST. THIS GUY IS A CERTIFIED MENTALLY DERANGED PERSON (CMDP)

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Garri the 1st: Maclatunji now works with punch...abi??

Abeg sharrap dia and face the topic..

Punch now posts on nairaland abi...??
Don't know why these teenagers wont stick to comedy or jokes section.
SMH

This is no the matter of who demolished what or who carried gun or not.
Thequestion to as here is
WHAT IS THE OP,MACLATUNJI TRYING TO ACHIEVE BY POSTING THIS OBVIOUSLY COOKED UP STORY?
Maclatunji should focus on items on his religion and leave other religions to face theirs.

Bandit C.:
Your type has cornered the market on insults so I am not even interested in indulging in such nonsense with you.

I can also see where your political dexterity and superiority has placed you and your ilk, regions ravaged with poverty and thuggery.

Look mister, you can only depend on politics and government to advance hence all your consciousness revolve around politics without which you would wither and fade away.

An average Igbo does not depend on or need politics to make his or her impression and has a much higher welfare compared to you that have been in government and politics for years but with nothing to show for it.Is it now a surprise and wonder to you that despite your so called "politics" an Igbo remains naturally and mentally more advanced than you.Smh at this novice.

See this MADit oh, sorry bandit, You do not even know where am from yet you've been ranting all round like someone bitten by a rabid dog.
IF AN AVERAGE IGBO DOES NOT DEPEND ON OR NEED POLITICS TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THE POLITICS SECTION?

Lordave: what the hell are you up to? Is office of the first lady by appointment? Damn, I can't believe you are reasoning right through this perspective.

Guy, you've got to learn how to read properly.

Bandit C.:
Get lost, you drone!!

It is called being independent minded. Ndigbo do not navigate like sheep which you people up north and west are known for.

Each Igbo man or woman can think for himself or herself and does not need a frog looking jagaban or skinny terrorist to remind him where his next meal would come from.

We are too advanced for your lot, mentally.

The insult is expected.
Well, It is obvious where the independent mindedness, self thinking and mental advancement has placed you politically.

Donmams: Another regional bigot. SMH.

Donmams, dont waste your keyboard taps on some folks who fail to understand that sentiment (noun) should not found at the highest office.
Patience Jonathan has no decorum, no poise and definitely no finesse expected of someone occupying the position of a first Lady. She thinks Nigeria is town hall meeting. SMH

Guys, one of the serious problems affecting Ndigbo is that they are never united, and that is why it will be difficult for an Igbo person to be president. They do not even accept their own. Just imagine how they are attacking their leader. How many northerners do you see attacking their own or even the westerners?
Ndibgo, you have a long way to go.

I wish GEJ was just a choir master somewhere . . .

GEJ, Thats self indictment!
The reason Nigerians don't have confidence in the police is because they do not have confidence in the Chief Security Officer of Nigeria, GEJ.

Dreal1247: Time for vengeance. He that lives in a glass house should not throw stones.

Except your glass house is bullet proof.

Shoprite shops all closed nationwide.
Never knew the Igbos are in charge there too

kutchs: ‘which ordinarily we could pay later‘
Why not pay before or immediately to save yourself the pain of embarrasment? It pains me that Nigerians know what to do but will wait to be forced to do it.
You people can shout political witchhunt as long as you like but the right thing must be done. You want to fly? Pay ur bills or u‘re grounded.

Heelloo! which Nigerians are you talking about? The ones that were suppose to do a proper job before granting a take-off clearance or the ones that took off after been given a take off clearance? haba!

In a bid to arrest the growing environmental hazards caused by the littering of waste, the Federal Government Wednesday said that it would implement a ban on the use of plastic bags in the country beginning from January next year.

The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadza Mailafia, who disclosed this during the 2013 Word Environment Day celebration in Abuja, explained that government would replace nylon bags with paper bags.

Mailafia, who said that the ban would take effect from January 2014, said that Government is also considering doing away with the use of sachet water.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/environmental-degradation-fg-bans-plastic-bags-january/149489/

Frank-C:
Read through your writing again. No wonder you are a Buhari supporter. If GEJ campaigne poster appear in Ibadan, it is GEJ that pasted it. If Amaechi's campaign poster appear in Kano, GEJ pasted it. If Buharis's campaign poster appear in Abuja, GEJ posted it. Probably, GEJ posted Barack Obama's campaign picture in last years US election.

You APC kids are really very funny. By the time Anenih start playing his trademark politics come 2015, you will be accusing GEJ of getting your wives and sister pregnant and for being the sole cause of global warming. Imagine Buhari in a campaign poster... Even his Boko Haram will not vote him for refusing to serve in their amnesty committee.

FYI, I am not member of APC neither that of PDP.
Tell your boss to calm down, 2015 is way out of his league.

Haba GEJ and PDP, have you guys gone this petty?
Guys for your information these posters did not originate from APC neither from Buhari.
The posters are the handy work of GEJ and PDP. The essence is to cause disaffection amongst APC by bringing out the posters with the inscription " APC consensus candidate".
The same guys that were hired by GEJ and PDP to place GEJ's 2015 posters are the same guys that placed that of BUHARI at the same strategic locations.
GEJ is very afraid of 2015. All the political structures he tried building never stood. he couldn't install his candidate for speaker of the house of representatives, his Nigeria Governors Forum candidate lost the chairmanship position, his wife lost plot land in abuja to Turai Yaradua.
Does it now surprise anyone why he is using thugs to threaten Nigerians about 2015?
Does it surprise anyone why he is pushing for automatic ticket for himself as PDP 2015 candidate?
He knows he wont even win PDP primaries!

ifihearam: You talk foolishly

You reason, talk and act foolishly.
Your mind is so plastic. learn how to read properly and don't allow your blind loyalty to GEJ rob you of sound judgment.

tatosh: What is the meaning of what you just wrote? Pointless!!
A piece of sophistry

If you have really ever passed any English exam in your life, you would have understood the point.
So unfortunate.

Guys, with all the NGF election brouhaha, I can confirm to you that our Governors are not smart after all.
GEJ knows that the NGF is a very strong forum and for him to realise his 2015 ambition he either gets the NGF on his side or break them. He has succeeded in breaking them. I am surprised that all the Governors see is Amaechi or Jang faction without realising that their wings have been clipped.
ANY NGF CHAIRMAN THAT HAS THE SUPPORT OF A SITTING PRESIDENT IS AN ENEMY OF THE NATION. Be rest assured that GEJ currently has support of the states led by Jang faction.
Now I agree GEJ has done well, he has done well at destroying anything democratic in Nigeria.
SMH.

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These guys are all clowns and jokers. You guys are just 35 in number and you are talking about ballot boxes? What has the election got to do with serial numbers?
All the Anti-Amaechi group are only playing out a script from Aso Rock.
It is a shame that GEJ can get this petty.

They don't know how to meet the leadership Boko Haram?
And the Federal Govt has not disbanded the group yet?
Only in Nigeria . . .

Please for those having painful menstruation, there this drug that ladies take its called ZOFLAM. It is an Nsaid. I've seen ladies who take it and their pain eases. Should be available in pharmacies around. Come back and thank me.

Stella Odua wants to contest as a gubernatorial candidate in her state?
or am i missing something?

Guys, the issue of collateral damage in any war zone is what the zone must cope with.
We know there are innocent civilians but there are also civilians who not only harbor these militants, they are also sympathetic to the course of the militants.
This should serve as a warning to any community that harbor militants, that they do not only put their lives in danger but also that of their whole community.
You do not expect a soldier to be thinking of rules of engagement when he sees three or more of his colleagues on the floor.

Hmmmm, everything is so clear now.
Everyone is now using mercenaries to actualise their 2015 ambition.
while some people may be using BOKOHARAM, President Jonathan has enlisted the services of Niger Delta Militants.
Ok oh, Naija lan wa.

Haba GEJ,
Calling us fools behind our back shows you have some respect for Nigerians.
But calling us fools to our faces shows how much you regards Nigerians.
Haba shoeless one.
Just wondering what else you'll tell us you did not have in 2015.

In the coming days we expect the probe to start on the pages of newspapers with Okupe leading the GEJ team and Fani Kayode leading the OBJ team.

All the GEJ bootlickers here should please advise their principal that he should caution his overactive attack dogs not to start this engagement. GEJ has far more to lose than OBJ. They both may be corrupt but even USA had to doff her hat for GEJ.
GEJ wey no fit handle common subsidy thieves na OBJ he wan engage. Heeeeeee ehn.