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TonyeBarcanista:
May Ignorance not finish you. See where Bill Clinton was referred to as President Bill Clinton on CBS 60 minutes... 10/11/2015


https://www.gop.com/obama-calls-clinton-secret-server-a-mistake-says-questions-legitimate/

Like I said, google will help. For the last time, it is the norm to call Presidents with the title... It is also okay to add "former' or "ex" prefix. Same way we can do for Senators, Ambassadors and Generals.

And may your pride not finish you.

Read carefully.

Question: Is a Former President Addressed as President (name)?

I have been directing people to refer to
former presidents as President (last name). Is that correct?
--- Anna McDonald, Stafford, Virginia

Answer: Dear Ms. McDonald:
This issue is complicated since we hear
former Presidents referred to as
President Clinton and President Bush
on the media all the time; Here's what is the correct formula as it appears in my book (assuming they didn't have an
honorific other than Mr./Ms. to go back
to ... as General Dwight D. Eisenhower
did.) :

Former President of the United States
Envelope, official:

The Honorable
(Full name)
(Address)

Letter salutation: Dear Mr./Ms. (surname):

Conversation: Mr./Ms. (surname)



Here's the WHY behind the correct
form:

This is the traditional approach for
any office of which there is only one
office-holder at a time. So, with officials such as mayors, governors or presidents

... only the current office holder is
addressed as Mr. Mayor, Governor, or
Mr. President ... formers are not
addressed that way.

That's not to say some reporter might
not call a former mayor Mayor Smith or
a former president President (Surname).

But doing so is incorrect and confusing to
the public.

The former office holder is no
longer due the precedence and
courtesies we extend to the current office holder. He or she speaks with the authority of a private citizen. We honor former office holder's service, but the 'form of address' -- which acknowledges the responsibilities and duties of office -- belongs only to current office holder.

With offices of which are many office-
holders at a time ... senators, admirals,
judges, etc. addressing 'formers' with
their former honorific not disrespectful to a singular current office holder.

To explain the correct form I would
say "using the title of a former
position is flattering to the former
official and he or she may not correct
you, but is not respectful to the
current office holder. There's only one
"(name of the office)" at a time."

Have a nice day Mr. ITK.

TonyeBarcanista:
IBB, Shonekkan and Abdulsallam were NEVER Presidents. They were military Generals. There is a VERY Big Difference between "President" and unconstitutional Military Head of State/ Head of Interim Government.

Jimmy Cartar, Bill Clinton, George Bush etc are still called PRESIDENTS! Google search will help!

I don't know why you keep acting like you know too much. Here's a link to edify your mind. It contains all possible references to former presidents of the US, and under what conditions they can be coloquially referred to as "president". Please do well to thank me later.

www.formsofaddress.info/FOA_president_US_former.html

Truckpusher:
Everybody has a writing signature that can never be the same with another man unless a well calculated attempt to mimick the individual which is always a mission impossible unless for a highly trained individual on espionage.
Back to the matter : the truth remains that it might be your turn tomorrow and this is my major concern.
We can't build a sustainable society by doing the same thing same way all the time.

Where is the change then ? Unless you've accepted that you've been scammed.

Baba face ya front abeg. I know your modus operandi too well.

You made some valid points though.

I'm just too damn pissed at the attitude of PDP supporters like your self. You don't appear remorseful about all your killer party did in the past, so on what moral grounds do you judge me

McTobe:
If God so bless you in life and u get to that height that GEJ got to or your dad get to that position and u come to a forum like this or in the television and see some body calling U or your Dad such mean words as u uses above, please how will U feel? waiting for your response.

How many such questions have you asked those hediots who call Baba all manner of names Waiting for your response.

teeboila:
Oya wailers come and call them almajiris

They are Alumajiris imported from Yobe by Tinubu to embarrass the Clueless one.

darlingtonVII:
see your life? Did i mention Buhari?

Must I mention Buhari ONLY if you do How much of the people you dislike know about your existence??

Get behind you hypocrite. I love who I want to and hate/dislike who I please- it is my prerogative. Get that into your brain if you have any.

TonyeBarcanista:
The title of President like Senator, General, Ambassador etc is eternal. It doesn't matter whether or not Jonathan still occupies the Office of the President, the ko-ko is that the title of President stays with him...

Fa fa fa fa, fowl!! Very big lie. Others could be right, but the bolded is completely false.

They are ex-presidents and can not be referred to as "President". It is not done anywhere, not officially or otherwise.

Stop misleading the public.

Since when did you hear one way "president Obasanjo", president IBB", "president Ernest Shonekan", "president Abdulsalam Abubakar", etc, since they left office.

It is not done.

darlingtonVII:
stay there and be hating on someone who doesn't know you exist

Wow, and Buhari knows about you and some fools' existence.

Oya, clap for yaself.

OrIandoOwoh:
When did I tell you I'm ibo?

When did I say you are one

Truckpusher:
And you had to use an alternate moniker to make this noise ?
If we continue like that , where does that leave the future of this nation?



It's a shame, Omenka.
Smh.

Let me ask all of you a simple question: what makes you lot think I'm Omenka

And while you answer that, you can shove your hypocritical comment up your brown eye. Where was your conscience when PDP was busy forming Pharaoh in the past??

Una never see anything.

noblezone:
Jonathan has the mentality of the peaceful. progressive and matured attitude of an average Biafran.

I am yet to see such statesmanship among the Arabian wannabes.


Imagine the bombshell if Buhari were to face the same situation.

..to add to what I said above, stewpiid comments like this make me dislike him even more.

As the guy dull reach, na so him fan too mumu.

This man disgusts me. Anytime I see hin face, I go just start dey para!

Nothing fit make me like am. Hin fvckup tooooo much. To make matters worse, his utterances never inspire anything- always sounding too basic and elementary.

PDP would do well to shove their whining tongues up the rump of whoever gives them half a fvck.

As for me, I wish someone could just bundle all them sons and daughters of the purveyors of the coven of darkness and drop them in the crater of Mount Vesuvius while they await its next eruption.

These guys rode roughshod on Nigerians and their rights for 16 gruelling years and today they expect to be treated like Prince William.

God pass dem.

If only the Olodo (I no call names oo) were used to wearing white, one would have always mistaken him for an Eyo Masquerade.

Mega dularkpo.

Whoever thought there'd come a time when almighty indomitable PDP would be wailing like some nappy headed adolescents??

I hope what they are saying is true!!

We've not forgotten the horrors suffered by APC chieftains in the hands of DSS during Anambra, Ekiti, and Osun elections.

Neither have we forgotten how PDP used policemen in their vans to escort OPC members as they marched on the streets of Lagos, brandishing guns and machetes harassing and intimidating members of the public, and destroying APC billboards in the days leading up to the last presidential elections.

At least then we saw pics and videos. In this case, noise is all we hear.

PDP used federal might and all devious means conceivable to wrestle power off APC in Ekiti state- a state that was comfortably in the hands of the then opposition- HEAVEN DID NOT FALL. APC went back, licked her wounds and restrategised.

They used the Police to harass Tambuwal and other APC law makers, and Heaven did not fall. If Baba does same (which I know he wouldn't given the democrat he is), HEAVEN WILL NOT FALL!!

#WeDontForget!!

INTROVERT:
cc lalasticlala

What are you calling Lala for?? This is very old and has graced the fp several times.

#Stale.

OrIandoOwoh:
lalasticlala FP tinz

Meanwhile, bubu's trekkers are committing suicide..

This Oladele of a guy is the GREATEST YORUBA MAN EVER!

Quote him anywhere

The same way Chidi, the thief who specialises in stealing goats in my area, is the GREATEST IGBO MAN EVER!

Nnamdi Azikiwe and Ojukwu combined wouldn't measure up to his ankle.

#true story.

I think the word "witch-hunt" has an entirely different meaning in the Nigerian lexicon.

Witch-hunt (Nig): noun.

1. To hold public office occupants to account.

2. To make all goats account for the yams they ate even though very lush savannah was made available for them to graze on.

3. To employ anticorruption agencies and the courts in the process of recovery of stolen state assets.


I think it has entirely different meaning in the english dictionary.

SeverusSnape:
You can now use your tongue to clean the latrine you and the cattle share.

I Fulani slaves are very obedient.

Nah, when I'm done cleaning your mother's tw&t with my tongue, I'd get to cleaning the latrine.


@Bold: oh really!! I didn't know you are also a Fulani slave!! Thought it was just me. Oooh, tell me, it was a typo huh? Rotflmao!!

They should tell the fool to always wash his hands before going to the polling centre. When your hands are very dirty, the card reader could fail to read your thumb print.

SeverusSnape:
Finish with the cattle first. There's more to do.

You're indeed a loyal servant.

I'm done with that my intelligent master. What else would you have me do?? Shave your mother's tw&t?? Anything you say Boss. I'm at your service.

SeverusSnape:
Good. You're dismissed.

Go tend to the herds at the bank of the Benue river.

Absolutely Mr Leonardo Da Vinci. Anything else you'd have me do for you and your family?? I could do anything for such intelligent folks like you and your parents.

SeverusSnape:
Hehehehehehehehehehe

Short of words, right?...

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Absolutely speechless boy. Never imagined anyone could be as intelligent as you are. We are very proud of you.

Where is Namadi Sambo in all this Don't tell me he never got a piece of the pie.

SeverusSnape:
Omenka I asked a question. Answer or else you'll be sold out.

If you like create another moniker, by reading two or three of your posts, I'll know who you are.

"The he-goat will always stink no matter the musk applied to it" - Ancient Assyrian proverb.

"Clap" for yourself again boy.

This new EFCC boss dey red eye no be small!! People should be more scared of him than Baba.

This is really getting big. Baba must tread very carefully henceforth. He's got too many powerful crooks/enemies that would do anything to escape his anticorruption dragnet.

SeverusSnape:
*claps*

Compare me with the likes of Hammurabi and Leonardo DA Vinci. Einstein is nothing compared to us.

Mr. omenka, you have a penchant for using Igbo names as your moniker, the tribe you so despise. Do you wish to be an IPOD youth?

Ata'Boy!! Keep clapping, please don't stop. Don't you like the sound of it?? Your parents must be Veeeeery proud of you son. How lucky they are to have you.

SeverusSnape:
Of course omenka, I know the chief slave when I see him, Even if he wears a purple apparel that signifies royalty.

Just like PassingShot is dropshot.

You must be veeeeeeeeery intelligent then. Please, a round of applause for yourself! Go on, don't be shy, clap for yourself. Einstein must be green with envy wherever he is.

SeverusSnape:
Omenka, How are your masters?

Sure you are normal upstairs