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Beaf:
I didn't say GEJ asked for a debate, its not done anywhere in the World that the sitting President challenges for a debate, he can't cheapen himself. It is always opposition presidential candidates that call for a debate.

What I said is that GEJ indicated that he will accept a debate after the primaries when Atiku kept demanding it very rudely:

UTOMI CHALLENGES JONATHAN TO DEBATE ON PDP RECORDS

Utomi challenges Jonathan to debate on PDP records
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:00 By Joe Adiorho News – National

THE recently adopted Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Mega Party (SDMP), Prof. Patrick Okedinachi Utomi, has challenged President Goodluck Jonathan to an open debate on why the nation has not moved forward.

He said that the presidential debate has become necessary because a great number of Nigerians were becoming disenchanted with the political development in the country.
He added that the issues that are critical to debate are education, security, state of infrastructure, the economy and strategies.

He explained that, “the reason one country makes more progress than the other is human capital and Nigerian used to be known all over the world for its commitment to education, but today, it was no longer so.

Utomi called for the debate yesterday at a press briefing in Lagos. “I will like to see a debate start immediately on these issues. We should not wait for presidential debate to take place one week to the elections. The debate should start next week and it should be issue- based before we come to general presidential debates.

“I would like to suggest that we begin by running on the records of the party in power. I invite President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, leader of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the its presidential flag bearer to join me in a debate on the records of the PDP sometime in the next one week,” he said.

He lamented that Nigerians were increasingly believing that, “democracy is not working in the country. According to him, “taking a look at what happened in the Delta State re-run election where I was told authoritative, in Warri, that a gun was pointed at the head of a National Youth Service Corps member, serving as an electoral officer and ordered to thumb print severally on the ballot papers, they do not believe that their votes will count. What happened there shows that we have fallen far below the poorest country in Africa and they were further frustrated by the fact that the Independent National Electoral Commission officials were totally helpless.
He also called on all progressive forces in the country to join him to establish a formidable vote protection army that will give meaning to the forthcoming elections.

He said that the process would involve the recruitment of able bodied and well-cultured youths that would be distributed, at least six persons in each ward throughout the country that would stand and serve as agents of all the political parties that would take part in the 2011 polls.
Utomi said that the goal of the project “is to ensure that these six persons would deprive anybody from unlawfully tampering with the votes already cast and thereby restoring confidence in the people that their votes will count”.

Utomi explained that with the electoral fraud that was perpetrated every now and then in the country, it is evident that it is a civilian coup that was occurring every four years that we conduct election.

“Nigerians will continue to be considered docile until something is done or something happens. What happened in Sierra Leone sometime ago was considered as the revenge of the poor, and in Nigeria, we have to organise ourselves so that Nigeria will not go the way of Somalia”.

http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/blog/?p=74995

2011 Presidential Debate: Jonathan Goodluck, Ribadu, Buhari & Co.
Posted: February 4, 2011 - 18:24
Posted by siteadmin
By Sunday Njokede

Boom! Jonathan bounced to the debate podium and took the microphone away from the standing cradle and holding it as a disc jockey, he told the audience that PDP is a women-friendly party that’d field and appoint more women as never – surpassing patronage from other parties.

President Jonathans’ wife was seen nodding her head in a renewed approval in support of what her man had just said. The audience at the debate venue were amazingly sceptical to the open hypocrisy of our president so they wonder if Jonathan has gone to take a course on ‘political spinning’ from erstwhile British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair leadership was regarded very high on spinning as per how they sexed up reports and dossiers tailoring them as in good faith while they were loosely porous and utter lies – but nonetheless they attacked Iraq as the highpoint.

A former USA diplomat present at the debate who had been studying Nigerian politics dare stood up and told Jonathan point-blank that his thesis about PDP women friendliness is hype. He took a special exception to the recently concluded PDP presidential primary where the lone woman contender Mrs Jubril scored just one vote for herself. In the aftermath of outvoting her by Machiavellian designs and rigging expertise, Nigerian women have learnt their lessons that PDP has ‘no vacancy’ for them and in effect, women have started leaving PDP en masse pitching their tents with other political parties. Even before PDP presidential selection charade, a forwarding-thinking woman as Dora Akunyili has decamped to alternative party. She was not deceived by the sweet but empty campaigns of Patience Goodluck soldiering for more women in politics. Underrate any woman or women in the collective at your own peril!

President Jonathan has had bellyful of churning Buhari successes so he’s set to mud him up terribly. In fact PDP sees Buhari in the fashion of a political aficionado. To them, he has done everything right that PDP has done wrong since 1999. He chose a like-minded very popular, pro-masses, ant-Establishment and equally incorruptible man as his 2i/c. He has female Stella Lebi as a spokesperson even as the male one Yinka is a Media personality – unlike the guttersnipe of a spokesman who drove onetime Foreign Affairs minister away from her work. Plus, Buhari mixes and mingles with progressives as the SNG and co. groups. Buhari has become the darling of Nigerians and further internationalists who think that he is more embraced both by lower people and straight upper class clique.

Miffed by Buharis' tall order of achievements for so short a time, Jonathan pumped up his bile attacking Buhari as a religious fanatic who’s only romancing Bakare to strengthen up his ‘rotten’ religious deviancy. Just then, would-be president Ribadu opened his eyes in wider amazement as if agreeing alongside Jonathan that Buhari is an unrepentant religious bogey man fanatic. Buhari was unperturbed by such definition of him but his vice Bakare was seriously embarrassed in utmost on how dirty politics could be for a starter. For once he thought if it weren’t better he return to pastoring. But however, he steeled up his mind and concluded he has seen it all in life and he’d be a rock in politics as he was a pastor. Although Jonathan had much to say, his time was up so he hurried away from the podium. But that was after he had wowed the debate audience that he’d concentrate on building more railway to upping train transport because tyres from heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for spoiling our roads.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen! Said Buhari with no false modesty attached to it. I must begin by saying that our president has buccaneered our statecraft into injury time that Nigeria needs a rescue team and by special grace of ‘God’ Tunde Bakare and I have come to give and nurture Nigeria with a new lifeline. Be rest assured my fellow countrymen and women, boys and girls! He intoned with cautious but positive optimism. As a man of few words and plenty actions, Buhari took Jonathan on by saying that everything about his regime is faked and corrupted out of awing proportion. He opened up confessing reading Sahara Reporters.com daily as do many politicians but none would actually accept they do; until they fall into trouble and need bailout that’s when they confess ever knowing SR as matter of fact. He boasted that his spokeswoman Stella Lebi signs all her blog off on Sahara Reporters with her real name while accusing Jonathan spokesman and his other co-persons as using dodgy pseudo to remain clandestine. He urged them to come clean on this and more - because, leadership is about putting your names and hands where Nigerians can see if they’re clean.

Buhari took a bitter swipe at the corrupt spending spree of Jonathan’s regime acknowledging that a responsible government should be as Spartan as old Greece humankind. This regime has chosen the same road as the Sodomites countrymen of old in spending our lean thrift on baseless and unseeable spirit projects he opine: punching the innocent air as if it were its fault; thereby exposing his thin hands unlike the bulky ones of IBB and OBJ. Not that Buhari is starving to death that is his nature. Just as he wanted to expatiate that he’s as sure as egg is egg to make it to Aso Rock and expose and punish corrupt ‘politically exposed persons’ with heavy hand, the debate moderator motioned him on that his time was up. Thank you all he said. So he left the podium graciously for Ribadu to debate on.

Ribadu enters the podium with somewhat shaky naivety not that Ribadu lacks lustre or not cut out to be a great leader. He is rock solid, incorruptible, and somehow trustworthy to his level best and a tested public server. His mourning per se arises from the ungovernable passion of Bola Tinubu to undermine him as presidential candidate; double-dealing away their party prospect for his private cravings same way OBJ’s self-aggrandisement has bedevilled PDP till this day.

That aside, Ribadu started with usual police catchphrase “who no dey no dey and when jungle mature everybody go answer iem papa name.” Meaning that he’s happy making it as presidential hopeful: a touchstone achievement to start with. PDP must be sacked this April he thundered into the microphone. You could already feel the avalanche of energy inside this young man. No wonder some people are capitalising on a more youthful candidate. But what good is a young candidate who’s corrupt from pillar to post, ceiling to floor? The debate audience were unanimous that it’s better to have an old incorruptible hand than a youthful crook as president. Most officeholders doing corruption in Nigeria are younger generation as Demiji Bankole and Jonathan Goodluck. Ribadu almost cursed Buhari for spoiling the union between his party and that of CPC but he contained himself knowing that by and by after the election he’d be working with Buhari to resuscitate Nigeria from PDP ruin. Just as Ribadu was bubbling hot to hit Jonathan and PDP harder, the debate moderator reminded him that his time was up.

Thank you all for coming, said the moderator with correct appreciation. The next debate would be a storm of activities he enthused conclusively.

Sunday Njokede writes from The European Union

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/2011-presidential-debate-jonathan-goodluck-ribadu-buhari-co

Beaf:
I didn't say GEJ asked for a debate, its not done anywhere in the World that the sitting President challenges for a debate, he can't cheapen himself. It is always opposition presidential candidates that call for a debate.

What I said is that GEJ indicated that he will accept a debate after the primaries when Atiku kept demanding it very rudely:

2011: Dele Momodu challenges Jonathan to debate

BY DAPO AKINREFON
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of National Conscience Party, NCP, Bashorun Dele Momodu, has told President Goodluck Jonathan to brace up for debates on the state of the nation. Bashorun Momodu said the debate was imperative because of the dwindling fortunes of the nation’s economy.

In a statement by National Coordinator of Dele Momodu Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr Ohimai Godwin Amaize, the NCP candidate argued that “since President Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan joined the presidential race, the business of governance has been abandoned for the giddiness of a re-election campaign.”

He also argued that “every move of the president betrays his fixation on power and the fact that he has completely lost control over the issues affecting our nation. Nothing tangible has been achieved by the PDP government in 12 years and the little that we could have conceded, like the wiping off of our external debts, has now been reversed under President Jonathan’s administration.”

He, however, accused PDP administration of the depletion in the nation’s external reserves, adding “our external debts have risen astronomically. Our reserves have been dangerously depleted. Our excess crude sales have been hurriedly spent on pacifying recalcitrant governors. Security has become worse. Infrastructure remains comatose.”

Aside this, he berated the Federal government for the way and manner education is being treated with “irresponsible disdain.”

He said “no one seems to know who’s in charge of our country. Our president is leading us on the road to Golgotha and all he can do is to play politics of divide and rule by employing primordial sentiments.”

Speaking further, he maintained that “the world has moved beyond this state of backwardness. The world is today being ruled by the distinguished men of ideas and not by tribal warlords.”

On the need for Nigerians to resist what he described as ‘clueless leaders’ by voting them out in the 2011 elections, he said “we need leaders who can compete in the new world.”

“The presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), Bashorun Dele Momodu is challenging President Jonathan as well as other presidential candidates to prepare for a series of serious debates where all critical issues affecting Nigeria will be debated with the intellectual dynamism of leaders who understand the problems of our nation and possess the practical solutions that will redeem our nation from the last horrible 12 years of the PDP government,” he stated.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/2011-dele-momodu-challenges-jonathan-to-debate/

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Petition for The 2011 Nigerian Presidential Debate
Opened on December 06, 2010 | Contact Petition Author

The Green Label Project beseech Nigerians home and abroad, including Youths,Politicians, Human rights activists, public intellectuals, Nigerian citizens and other Youth movements to support a global petition for the commencement of an unbiased Presidential debate geared towards accountability and transparency.

With the biased electoral systems and politics as a simple quest for politicians to grab power, most candidates hardly even think through what they would want to offer the people except the general phrases of promises of a ‘good life’—power, security, education, health, roads, water supply, housing, etc. Some even go to the length of employing the use of consultants who prepare glossy ‘programmes’ that promise Eldorado, without any slightest idea of what it would cost and how and from where the money would come.

In summary Nigerian politics today appears to have been still born. The colonial era politics of tribalism and corruption has persisted to the present day. In order to improve the state of Nigerian politics and in turn the fortunes of our country, the focus must shift from the discussion of personalities to the discussion of the issues that affect its 150 million citizens. A fair and frank presidential debate, with the cooperation of the media, would be a good step in cajoling our presidential candidates into facing these issues as well as paving the way for people participation and accountability to the masses.

We, the undersigned, call on every Nigerian far and wide to join this cause in bringing about accountability through the Nigerian presidential elections and to help bring about positive change in Nigeria

http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/thegreenlabelproject

Beaf:
Good, Fashola can keep his loose lips busy in debates at his level.

All over the World, it is standard practice that opposition presidential candidates challenge the ruling President to a debate.
So far, Ribadu, Buhari, Utomi etc have all kept sealed lips, even though GEJ has indicated months ago that he will take up any such challenge.

Mr man, Fashola has the right to ask for whatever he's asking for from all the presidential candidates, he's a Nigerian before a governor, so respect his fundamental human right to choice, expression and most importantly opinion.

As for GEJ asking for a debate, can you show us where he said so? we're not talking about that yeye PDP debate shit oo, a debate is still on the request line from the champions daily and GEJ is yet to accept the request oo.

JustGood:
Understood.

I would still want Pastor Bakare to justify his position in the light of the bible's stance on unequal yoke.

TBH, he is a man I have admired ever since I met him in the early 90's and I have nothing but respect for him. However, my point still remains that this stance is against what he protends to believe and preach every sunday. I'd just love to hear/read him explain it away somehow.

Bro, read your bible very well, you'd know that God can use anyone or anything. Is Jonathan not a christian? why is he working with a Muslim as his vice or are all Christians not equal in God's eyes?

God can use anything bro, God can, just free your mind and reason rationally.

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I weak bro

sley4life:
@all those not-so-smart person f^ols keep reading the manifesto and wait 4 implementation u punk axx. U can hang urself 4 not joining hands with not-so-smart person m o r o n s like u 2 blv that 20% of such manifesto will b implemented. My support for GEJ would not change. Lets wait till April & see who has the last laugh.

Sickness of the mind.

There is a governorship debate coming up in Lagos on the 2nd of march (7pm-9pm), organized by channels tv and thisday newspaper, it's between Fashola, Dosumu, Randle, Yotomi and one more candidate, so does calling for Fashola's debate should know that one is already prepared even though he had one with Dosunmu of PDP already.

^^^

May the good lord crown our effort come April 2011, we are simply not doing it for money or personal gain, but for the LOVE for our country.

Show of shame as the PDP celebrated Bode George after he was released from prison, i am tired of these criminal gang called the PDP

stand Toe-to-Toe against corruption! Vote Buhari/Bakare (CPC) @ d Apr 2011 Elections. (My new status on FB)

I love this part from the BB2011 manifesto


On Conflict Resolution, National Unity and Social Harmony

we will:

1. Establish a Conflict Resolution Commission to help prevent, mitigate and resolve civil conflicts within the polity;
2. Bring permanent peace and solution to the Niger Delta and other conflict prone areas such as Plateau, Taraba, Bauchi, Borno and Abia in order to engender national unity and social harmony;
3. Initiate policies to ensure that Nigerians are free to live and work in any part of the country by removing state of origin, tribe, ethnic and religious affiliations and replace those with state of residence.

^^^

Lagos was starved of funds, but until Yaradua took over.

since 1991, the FG has refused to build any new road in Lagos, can someone point out to what the FG has done in Lagos since 1991?

One more thing, the Agege motor road belongs to the FG, but that road is an eyesore to the whole of Lagos, you can't drive through it and traffic now last into 1am in the morning, i had to take bike home yesterday and i spent close to 2hours on that road even on a bike, not to talk of those who were in the buses/cars e.t.c

Sucks!!!

Beaf:
Thats for another set of articles, otherwise this one would get derailed.

Then open a new thread for that, i am waiting.

Written by Bello Gusau, Stephen Gbadamosi, Charles Akinsete and Tunde Ogunesan
Sunday, 27 February 2011
FORMER Sokoto State governor, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, has debunked the insinuation by
his former Lagos State counterpart, Senator Bola Tinubu, that the alliance effort between the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) was frustrated by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) when, according to Bafarawa, he (Tinubu) was the one responsible for the breakdown of the alliance.

Bafarawa, who stated this on Saturday at a press conference in Sokoto, described the former Lagos State governor both as a liar and an agent of the PDP, who truncated the merger talks out of his selfish desire to be the vice presidential candidate.

He said rather than beat around the bush, Tinubu should own up to the responsibility for the failure of the allaince talks between the two parties.

Bafarawa, who was a presidential aspirant of the ACN, said the presidential standard-bearer of the CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari, had earlier said it was the former Lagos State governor who was frustrating the allaince talks between the ACN and CPC because of the interest he had in becoming his running mate, a development he said could not be possible in view of the fact that it would be tantamount to having a Muslim/Muslim ticket.

"I am surprised that rather than Tinubu refuting the pronouncement by Buhari, he resorted to pointing accusing fingers at others over the failure of the alliance when he is to blame,” he said.

The former Sokoto State governor lamented that the alliance talks between the ACN and CPC was initiated by leading members of the two parties, including him, but that as the talks progressed, they were kept in the dark because of the sinister motive of those who were not truly in support of the alliance.

He said as leaders, politicians should imbibe the habit of saying the gospel truth on matters that concerned members of the public and not resort to making scape-goats through misplaced accusations.

Bafarawa said this was necessary in view of the need by politicians to protect their integrity and respect in the eyes of the people.

The former Sokoto State governor, however, concluded by saying that he had nothing personal against Tinubu as the two of them were political associates, who now belong to one party, the ACN, but that the both of them needed to put things in clear perspectives in the best interest of the nation's hard-earned democracy.

Meanwhile, The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) began its South-West campaign in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Saturday, with notable leaders of the party from across the country in attendance.

The occasion, at which the party’s flag was presented to its candidate, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, was marked by a mild surprise as some key associates of former Governor Rashidi Ladoja, who is contesting the governorship election in April on the ticket of the Accord Party (AP), were unveiled at the rally as new defectors to the ACN.

Also, chieftains of the party, who lost out at its primaries, Ismail Adewusi, Professors Oluwole Akinboade, Oye Oyemakinde and Soji Akanbi, were conspicuously absent at the rally, which paralysed economic activities along Beere/Idi-Arere axis.

Thousands of ACN faithful thronged the Mapo Hall venue of the rally, where popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Wasiu Ayinde, who dished out anti-Akala songs at the campaign, was on the band stand.

Leader and major financier of the party, Senator Bola Tinubu, who flew in on a chopper, in company with Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, SAN, seized the occasion to react to the statement credited to President Goodluck Jonathan where some politicians were recently referred to as rascals, saying the president had forgotten that it was leaders of the South-West that civilized the people of the South-South.

Tinubu, whose chopper, marked 5N-LSG, followed by an escort helicopter, hovered over the sky of Ibadan for several minutes before moving to Ibadan Polo Club to land. It was from this place that he and Governor Fashola rode on motorcycles to the renovated Mapo Hall.

The former governor of Lagos State also called on the people of Ibadan and the entire Oyo State to vote for the ACN in April so that the state would be led out of the woods. He said the hallmark of the current government in the state was dearth of infrastructure like roads, water, light, education among others.

“Look at the way Lagos is. We can make Ibadan and the entire Oyo State look like that. Mapo Hall is a historic place. Our father, Obafemi Awolowo, who led us into the prosperous era of free education, provision of good roads and other social amenities, also came here to campaign. Oyo State, therefore, needs to be a source of good governance. Mapo is the home of freedom,” he said.

In his speech, Fashola said it was the same pro-people government that Awolowo provided the people that we are offering you. Awolowo provided free education, good roads, food and life in abundance.

“This is what we have brought to you. Our brooms will sweep out the government of no light, no road and no food,” he said.

Also, Governor of Osun State, Alhaji Rauf Aregbesola, while decrying the PDP governments in the South-West, contended that the ACN would not allow the party to turn the region into a desolate land, adding that it would be chased out with the votes of the people.

“Hasn’t Lagos changed? Osun is now changing; Ekiti is changing. Our governors don’t go about doing mundane things. They are occupied with thoughts of how to bring in good governance,” he said.

National Chairman of the ACN, Chief Bisi Akande, also indicted the PDP, accusing it of failing the people of Nigeria when it had the opportunity to better their lot.

“Would you go to a party that has run the affairs of the country for 12 years and there is hunger and lack in the land? In (Olusegun) Obasanjo’s eight years in government, it was hunger everywhere,” he said.

Leader of the ACN and former governor in Oyo State, Alhaji Lamidi Adesina, who remarked that Governor Alao-Akala and his former boss, Senator Ladoja, having once ruled the state, should sit down and allow someone else to govern, remarked that the statement of the president during the PDP’s South-West presidential campaign was not good enough.

“I asked the president to tender unreserved apology to ACN leaders. His governor, Alao-Akala, on the other hand, should go and sit down. So also is Ladoja. They have been in government. Let another person come in,” he said.

Those who defected to the party and who were unveiled on Saturday were Alhaji Yunnus Akintunde, Honourable Yemi Aderibigbe, Alhaji Ali Dodo, Chief Sharafadeen Ali, Alhaji Abass Oloko, Honourable Akin Adegboyega and Mrs. Moji Adetona as well as their supporters.

Chief Ali, who was former Governor Ladoja’s Secretary to the State Government (SSG) and later Chief of Staff (COS) under him, took a swipe at both the PDP and AP rallies which were also held at Mapo Hall, contending that they had crowd, but lacked people, while that of the ACN had people and a large crowd.

Among other leaders of the party at the rally were, former chairman of the Alliance for Democracy, Chief Michael Koleoso; and ACN governorship candidate in Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun.

Lam should be ashamed of his performance as governor –Alao-Akala
In his reaction to the statement by former governor of the state, Alhaji Lam Adesina, that his administration has failed the people and should therefore not seek re-election, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala described the call as a meaningless statement from “a failed politician who had all within his control to develop the state when he had the opportunity, but chose to fail.”

Speaking through his Special Adviser, Media and Public Communication, Prince Dotun Oyelade, Akala said “it is meaningless reacting to a comment made by a failed politician because the Ibadan ACN rally was as usual bankrolled, organised and personified by the chief rascal himself; Tinubu.

He stated further that “instead of scolding his surrogate for playing to our hands by using the same podium erected by the Akala/Arapaja Campaign Organisation at Mapo for their own infamous rally without the decency to construct their own”.

According to Akala, “Jonathan has been proved right because decency and self esteem which is the hallmark of Yorubas have been utterly discarded by these characters by that singular insensitivity. The record achievement of Alao-Akala will continue to haunt them untill they stop to promise what they cannot give”.

Speaking further, Alao-Akala noted that “more distressing is the inability of Tinubu people to allow his party a free hand to assist the economy of Oyo State by patronising local media stations. Instead, he ensured that the live broadcast of his party in Oyo State was given to his business concern; TV Continental from Lagos State.

“We in Oyo State have made up our minds that we shall never sell our heritage to another state,” he declared.

‘Ajimobi more suitable for Oyo governorship’
Meanwhile, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has been described as the only suitable candidate to be governor of Oyo State in 2011.

This declaration was made by a former aspirant to Oyo State House of Assembly,Oluwasegun Oyeniran in a chat with Sunday Tribune.

Oyeniran who is also the spokesperson of SOLAN Movement in Ido Local Government Area of the state said that only Senator Ajimobi could rescue the state from its present political logjam.

His words: “The most qualified candidate for the governorship seat out of all the contestants, is Senator Abiola Ajimobi,considering the volume of allegations levelled against some of the candidates. It’s only Ajimobi that has no question to answer about his past.

He dismissed insinuations that former governorship aspirants on the platform of the ACN in the state would not work for the party’s gubernatorial candidate,saying that the ACN in Oyo State was one and solid.

ACN ’ll dislodge PDP -Ayeni
In another development, Dr Adeniyi Ayeni, has predicted that ACN would defeat PDP at the April polls.

Dr Ayeni, who was recently appointed as a member of the Planning, Research and Strategic Committee of the party in Oyo State said that the socio-economic backwardness of the nation in the last decade, in spite of the huge revenue at the country’s disposal would be the undoing of the PDP in the forthcoming elections.

Dr Ayeni commended the achievements of Governors Raji Fashola, Rauf Aregbesola and Kayode Fayemi for their readiness to bring about the much desired positive change in the South-West.

http://tribune.com.ng/sun/index.php/front-page-articles/3262-tinubu-lied-on-acncpc-alliance-bafarawa-as-acn-leaders-storm-ibadan-for-ajimobi-adewusi-soji-akanbi-absent-lam-shameless-alao-akala

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=612960.msg7809421#msg7809421 date=1298802784]NYC isn't starved of funds by the US FG though Lagos otoh is gypped.

$2 billion budget for 12 million+ people. . .

60%+ of the VAT revenue of Nigeria. . . yet only sees a small fraction of this money back.

etc, etc.

Pretty damn annoying.[/quote]Yes, imagine being starved of funds by the then OBJ regime for years.

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Abi, calabar is like a resting place, so no comparison


Lagos to Nigeria is like NY to the USA.

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  On what basis did they do the rating? did they explain that to you? and how can you rate states who have different population ratio, monthly allocation and geographical location? you can't compare Lagos with Akwa Ibom man, you can't, not even Rivers. (at least let them know the various infrastructures and industrial development they claim are in Akwa Ibom. I mean the towns where these things were put and all sort, not some random write up from some people who haven't even been to Nigeria not to talk of knowing where Akwa Ibom is.

Beaf:
Very true. I recall my deep shock as a teenager, the first time I was referred to as omo ibo. I was like how? Then you explain the geography a bit and they come up with, Oh, your from Bendel! That means you're Yoruba!

Very silly, even the educated ones among them, sometimes i feel like slapping sense into their dead brain.

Beaf:
Nah, the whole thing is just really funny. We keep hearing all sorts of noises from Fashola about the Presidency, whereas he is a mere governor. Why can't he be quiet, as pointed out, he isn't even rated among the best 3 in the country. Acoording to wikileaks, it Akpabio, Amaechi and Oshiomole. Why is he so damn mouthy like he raised Jesus from the dead?
The funniest bit is that Ribadu hasn't even started campaigning, neither has Buhari. The only person campaigning is GEJ, so the others aren't even equipped to challenge him to a debate yet, but Fashola goes yapping like he is ACN's presidential candidate.

And yes, I do say Fashola will end up in PDP, cos thats really his only option if he doesn't want to be suffocated and spat out by Tinubu.

LOL, man i am laughing at you and that your useless wikileaks you keep quoting, so becauswe wikileaks said Akpabio, Amaechi and Oshiomohle were said to be the best perfromers, so its 100% correct? lol, okay lets even look at it this way, what makes Oshiomohle, Amaechi and Akpabio better than Fashola? policy by policy, infrastructure by infrastructure, services by service, can you open a thread to show all these?

If wikileaks come out to say Nigeria is the richest in the world, are you going to accept too just because it's from wikileaks?

There are alot of things you don't need a wikileaks, cnn or bbc telling you, things you see with your eyes can't be told to you by another person.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=612806.msg7809314#msg7809314 date=1298799985]Keep telling us something we cant prove.  You prolly meant "when I was 42". . ,  hmm

Na wetin the Yorubas do all of una Innocent people like that ehn [/quote]You doubting me vanilla? i don't have to prove that to you, but i have younger ones whom i have tested their world knowledge and they haven't failed woefully, though not as good as i was when i was 12, but still better than some 30+yrs old in the US.

Not just Yoruba, but the Igbos too, the Hausas aren't left out either, the major tribes like to claim some of us, some just like to apportion us to any tribe however they want and it's irritating.


[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=612806.msg7809321#msg7809321 date=1298800071]

Hrm, seems the minorities don't like us very much. Not a good thing. . .[/quote]Just like i said, Nigeria is not all about Yoruba, Hausa or Igbo, other ethnic groups made Nigeria Nigeria.

If Lagos can de-congest her population, the city can see the light of the day, just too many people, too many cars on tiny roads, too many people at the airport, too many people at the bustop, just too many.

Haba, are there no other states in Nigeria people can just relocate to?

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=612806.msg7809284#msg7809284 date=1298799173]Ouch @ aneyowa. . . that is pretty harsh   

Man I need to learn some insults fast to level up with that one [/quote]This one is even soft, if you hear more, you'd pity the yoruba people, GEJ called una rascal abi? lol, more names plenty for una wella


[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=612806.msg7809288#msg7809288 date=1298799283]It's a Nigerian problem. Dont you dare try to point fingers

Am even more shocked that Geography is in Nigeria's academy curriculum.   jk jk[/quote]Not a Nigerian problem miss, some tribes are not like that, the problem is mostly with the major tribes (3), most of the rest understand better.

I was able to name 150 countries with their capital when i was 12, i could point to where they are on the map and i could also tell you their languages and even currency, Nigerian school teach geography very well and we are more exposed to the world than the Americans when it comes to this aspect.

[quote author=eku_bear link=topic=612806.msg7809239#msg7809239 date=1298798082]Very informative post!
A certain lazy ignorance/arrogance that Yoruba people sometimes have It isn't good at all. We aren't sufficiently politically correct, unfortunately.[/quote]Do you want to hear what the Bini people call the yorubas?

Aneyowa meaning someone that defecates at home (not in the toilet o )


[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=612806.msg7809257#msg7809257 date=1298798341]LOL Sometimes Yoruba ppl are like white ppl that likes to categorize every black person as AA.
They just dont care lol.[/quote]Pure short sightedness and lack of geography education, also lacking in the education of history lol.

What i don't understand from beaf and his team is how is it a bad thing for Fashola to have asked for a debate from all the presidential aspirants, does he have a problem with Fashola or is he just keeping beef with that man?

I can smell and sense jealousy in his writings (with the way he constantly talks about Fashola switching to PDP tales).

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=612806.msg7809096#msg7809096 date=1298795119]Why are you taking offense at being called an omoibo? One would think you'd pride yourself coming from Nigeria's "best" tribe.
Calm down jor. [/quote]Never an omo ibo, a Bini man can never be proud to be put under another ethnic group, bini people are not second class people, we remain one of the strongest tribe in Nigeria irrespective of our population.

Even as "little" as we were, we were never under any other hands pre-colonization.

Beaf:
Thats how being called omoibo or Igbo comes across to me.

Very irritating, maybe its due to ignorance or short sightedness?

Why chase after a leftover from someone you know? are you a second hand man or what?

Omo ibo on its own is not an insulting word, but when it gets insulting is how the Yorubas use it indiscriminately, if you cannot speak Yoruba, you're automatically called an omo ibo irrespective of where you are from, Imagine some Yorubas calling a Bini man an omo ibo? or a woman from benue an omo ibo?

I am calling for a debate too, i am tired of seeing all these noises from PDP and GEJ on TV, he should come and defend the rubbishes he's talking on the all the campaigns he's done so far.

Let me come and debate with other aspirants.

Beaf:
Why do you always come across like a daft agbero? Are you pretending to be remarkably dim or is that you simply can't understand English?

Fashola is making himself and his party look like fools when he keeps demanding things above his station, its that simple.
It is Ribadu's place to make any challenge, not that of a mere governor thats little more than a polished criminal selling up his state to both himself and Tinubu.

What is so difficult about the above? I hate foolishness! lol

I ask you again, WHY IS YOUR BOSS RUNNING FROM NATIONAL DEBATE?

Fashola has the right to call for a national debate.

I'm joining Fashola now to call for a presidential national debate!

I am too civil and more matured to engage you in throwing insults just like you and your GEJ often do.

I discuss reasonable things and have no time for jabs and exchange of insults.


So one more time, When is your PHd holding boss going to agree to a national debate?

BB UPDATES:
The Buhari/Bakare campaign timetable is out, spread the word:
1st March - North West - Kaduna
2nd March - North Central - Minna
3rd March - South West - Ibadan
4th March - South South - Benin
5th March - South East - Owerri
7th March - North East - tbd