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The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Friday said as far as the forthcoming general elections were concerned, politicians from the Northern part of the country had miscalculated.

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), a Northerner, is contesting against President Goodluck Jonathan (a Southerner) of the Peoples Democratic Party in the march 28 presidential election.

Okupe, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, said the Northern politicians got it wrong because they erroneously believed that a national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is the leader of the Yoruba race and that he could deliver the South-West to his party.

He said while doing that, the North left out some of the people that really mattered in the zone, whom he described as the North’s former allies.

He said, “The North has always had partnership in the South—in the South-West, South-South and South-East.

“But somehow, the North miscalculated this time around because they assumed wrongly that Bola Tinubu was the leader of the Yoruba race, and that if they can strike a deal with him, they have got the South-West.

“While doing that, they left their former allies that included Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo, Richard Akinjide, Olunloyo and others.”

Okupe said even if Buhari wins the presidential election, which he said was impossible, the North would still lose out.

He said if Buhari wins, he would not be able to do second term, therefore giving room for a Southerner to again emerge as the President in 2019.

He wondered if the North would be satisfied with only four years when they could have their full eight years from 2019.

Okupe said, “Even if Buhari wins this election, which is impossible, he cannot do a second term.

“So, when the second term comes, why would other people not contest against him? He is a Northerner and if he cannot run for election again, then, the thing should go back to the South. So, would the North be satisfied with only four years?

“These are the issues. That is why I am saying this 2015 election is beyond Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari. It is a matter of national stability.”
http://www.punchng.com/news/north-wrongly-places-hope-on-tinubu-okupe/

very wrong headline.

the united states department of state wanted a very secured network operation that they could exchange their mails on and not be spied on in the process.

emails had long been in use in the united states but trust Americans for their spying watch.

Osinbajo: A Quality VP Nigeria Must Not Miss


SIR: It was the late Nkemba of Nnewi, the late Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, an icon in the annals of Nigerian history, who asserted boldly in the condolence register, after the death of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, that – “He was the best President Nigeria never had.” But these are strange times in political campaign and media advertisement. Ethical considerations and African values matter little when economic gains steer media people in the face.

Or how can you explain a recent advertisement in some of our print media by the ruling political party that “General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) humiliated late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and he is now using his in-law as a spare tyre”. For me whoever is elected to the position of Vice President, is elected to do the job of a president, when the latter is overloaded with state duties or is absent. To suggest in a hate-suffused advert that the position of vice presidential candidate is like what a spare tyre is to a car, is terrible.

From my encounter with Professor Yemi Osinbajo, at the Legal Research and Resource Development Centre I have no doubt in my mind that the south-west has put forward one of their brightest. Coupled with this is the fact that he is integrity personified. These two qualities in one person as the number two man in a country with leadership problem is great. We must always remember that “ integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”. Prof, as we fondly refer to him taught some of us “the mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.”

When we do not vote people who can re-invent decency in our body polity into government, where lies our hope as a nation. Decency here does not have to suggest the mere veneer of morality, the suppression of conscience. It can instead mean the rigorous search for the fitting and appropriate right response to the situations in which we find ourselves. To be “decent” is not passive, or hypocritical, or mediocre, or callous. It is instead to find the response commensurate with the needs of the moment. Those needs are many and various. Some moment call for respect some for humours, others call for outcry or restraint or the call to collective action. All of these responses can be decent. The trick is to know which is required and when.

Indecency is the harm caused by the wrong responses at the right moment. Obedience, when resistance is called for, is indecent. So is the lavish excess of outrage, when constructive action would be more fruitful. Indecency is mockery when empathy is needed, violence when restraint is fitting, silence when outspokenness is required, self-righteousness when humility is called for.

General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB), is compatible with Professor Yemi Oshinbajo, in the political will to fight corruption. I believe that if these two can tackle corruption, head on, the country will be on the part to glory.

•Olusola Akinbode, Lagos.

mods, pls ban this desperate pdp agent

front page

femcruz:
For HORSE

hmmmmmmmmmm

one might feel maybe they should just ignore her noise but you have to know the desperation of pdp to understand apc.

when a woman will do anything because she does not want to leave the first lady seat irrespective of election outcome.

look at what happened at the Okirika apc rally, the woman is ready to start a war.

another lying thread.accreditation took between 15seconds and a minute in over 90 percent of the centres.


deceive una sef well well, 10 minutes indeed.



http://www.punchng.com/news/inec-card-readers-pass-mock-exam/

hmmmmmmmmmmm

front page

true

The field testing of card readers which was held on Saturday was largely successful but not without some hitches.

These irregularities in the exercise that was meant to be a dress rehearsal according to findings by our correspondents ranged from the inability of the card reader to identify some finger and thumb prints and slow pace of the process.

However, occurrences of success permeated most of the poll units visited by our correspondents.

The major grouse of electorate in Niger State was the time spent on the accreditation of each voter. This, many of the participants in the mock polls described as “too slow”

This drew the attention of both the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressive Congress in the state on Saturday which commended the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The state PDP Chairman, Umar Musa Maali, said “the time spent to accredit one voter is much. If it can take a minute per voter to be accredited, and with a polling unit like this place that has over 1,000 voters, it is going to take over 1,000 minutes, which is about 16 hours, to accredit all the voters. The 16 hours is more than the accredited time of five hours. I do not know how INEC is going to sort it out.”

The APC Publicity Officer in the State, Jonathan Vatsa, while speaking on his party’s concerns over the Internet connection, described the service as poor but that the party would ensure INEC’s attention is drawn to it so that all polling units are covered and captured during the elections.

INEC National Commissioner supervising Kaduna, Kwara, Niger and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Dr. Chris Iyimoga while addressing reporters, said the process of demonstration to the public was smooth except for few hitches with some card readers which could be due to finger identification.

He said “In some instances, people cleaned their hands with methylated spirit which has to do with the level of cleanliness of fingers, because, as soon as the fingers are clean, you will be through.”

He disclosed that over 70 per cent of eligible voters in Gwada ward had failed verification but were said to be eligible since the data in the PVC corresponded with the official list and also as the machine identified them as owners of PVCs.

Iyimoga also disclosed that if the information given by the electorate is correct, the voter will still be allowed to vote, adding that the Commission has backup for the card reader in case there are cases of malfunctioning.

Ekiti

In Ekiti State, the turnout was low.

•An INEC officer verifying the fingerprint of Franca Oba at Niger Mixed Secondary School, Asaba, Delta State ...on Saturday.
[/media-credit] •An INEC officer verifying the fingerprint of Franca Oba at Niger Mixed Secondary School, Asaba, Delta State …on Saturday.

As of 11:30 a.m, no fewer than 60 people had been accredited in Dallimore polling unit 002 in the state capital. The technical officers stated that the average time for the accreditation ranged between four and six seconds.

Members of European Union Election Observers, Mrs Rumi Ana Decheva and Mr Uros Urstga, who monitored the mock accreditation commended INEC for the initiative, saying it would help in adding credibility to the country’s electoral process.

The chairman of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, Mr. Tunji Ogunlola, in an interview with our correspondent after monitoring the exercise said, “It is very transparent, reliable and fast. It will make rigging impossible.”

Ogunlola who said he monitored in company with a few other political parties commended the INEC for a job well done and advised all Nigerians to support the commission.

Former Commissioner for Tourism under ex-Governor Kayode Fayemi’s government, Alhaji Ayodele Jinadu, and ex-Chairman, Ado Ekiti Local Government, Mr Sunday Ibitoye, described the exercise as a huge success.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr Sam Olumekun, who monitored the event said it had convinced Nigerians about the usefulness and relevance of the machines in the coming general elections.

He said, “We would have appreciated it if the turnout has been better than this, but we have been able to convince the people about the workability of the machines, which was the main issue.

Delta

In Delta State, the exercise was not without few hitches as our correspondent observed that INEC and voters alike reported to the 14 voting units promptly at 8am when it was scheduled to begin.

The units were located at Asagba Primary School and Niger Mixed Secondary School, all in Asaba. Six of the units were located were at Niger Mixed Secondary School while the rest were at Asagba Primary School.

Most of the verification went on smoothly, taking just a few seconds for the polling officials to interview and test each voter with the card reader.

But there were a few cases where the process caused anxious moments as it took several trials before the card reader could verify the few voters.

One of such incidents occurred at Polling Unit 12, where an elderly woman, Mrs. Franca Oba, and to endure for almost 30 minutes before her fingerprint was accepted by the card reader.

Unlike other voters that just came and had their fingerprints verified within a few seconds, Oba had to avail all her 10 fingers for verification for seven times before the reader verified hers.

In her reaction, Oba said, “The card reader is good. But if every voter has to go through this, then it means people will not leave the polling unit before midnight.”

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Delta State, Mr. Charles Ajuya (SAN), who monitored the exercise praised the efficiency of the card reader but said it would have been better if the exercise was taken to the rural areas.

The Chairman of the Delta State Independent Electoral Commission, Mr. Moses Ogbe, said, “From what I have seen, we should give the card reader a trial. It will go a long way to improve our elections and democracy.”

But he advised that water or spirits should be made available to clean the fingers of voters so that the verification process could be smoother and faster.

Niger

In Niger, 42 per cent of the eligible voters who presented themselves for the exercise were not accredited.

This was confirmed by the INEC on Saturday.

A National Commissioner of the commission Dr. Chris Iyimoga, while disclosing the figures from the 18 polling units in Gwada ward in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger state 1,799 voters were authenticated by the card reader.

According to him “The card reader out of 1,799 eligible voters that turned up, authenticated 1,045 voters with PVCs, leaving 754 unauthenticated”.

“With the figures we have, it shows that 58 per cent voters are authentic and 42 per cent are not authentic going by the card reader”.

Lagos

In Lagos the turnout was low. Despite this, there were a few hitches. At the polling units our correspondent visited in Onigbongbo, Ikeja axis, most of the polling units recorded between two and five registered voters turnout, while in some others, no registered voter came out for the exercise.

INEC officials at the different poll units which recorded a few registered voters told our correspondent that it took between five to 20 seconds to capture the voter’s identity and finger print on the card reader devices. However, there were a few cases where the finger prints could not be accessed.

Rivers

In Port Harcourt, Rivers State, there were also cases of finger prints not registering. This was noticed by United Nations observers.

Leader of the group, Mrs. Eno Udensi, who spoke, under the aegis of the United Nations Election Observers, explained that based on her observation, the card readers were working.

Udensi, who was at the State Primary School, Orominike to observe the test-run of card readers by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, stated that though there were some minor challenges in the exercise, it would not affect the use of the items during the elections.

“The machines are working, even though the thumb printing is failing in most cases, the face of registered voters appears on the card reader. Some came with oily hands that make their cards difficult to read.

“While it took about one or two minutes for the card reader to okay one person, a particular person had to wait for 15 minutes before the card reader was able to read his thumb print. But the photographs are showing on the card readers,” she said.

Also, an INEC staff at Units 4,5,6 and 7 in Orominike State Primary School, said the card readers were hanging while trying to authenticate eligible voters’ data.

The commission’s employee, who preferred anonymity, said the card readers worked well in some cases.

Earlier, a 25-year-old man, Princewill Obioma, whose PVC could not be read by all the card readers used at the State Primary School, Orominike, expressed bitterness over the development.

Ebonyi

In Ebonyi, the exercise was marred by the slow pace in the authentication of PVCs.

Our correspondent observed that the card reader took over 20 minutes to authenticate a single PVC, which is done by matching the fingerprints in the database, during the exercise which took place at Izzi Unuhu, in Abakiliki Local Government Area.

At Nkaliki Echara Primary School, out of 25 persons verified as at a point during the exercise, only six were successfully authenticated.

It was the same scenario at Edukwu Inyimagu Hall, where only three persons, out of about 70 verified voters, were successfully authenticated at a particular time.

However, those whose fingerprints could not be verified by the card reader had their names and pictures on the voters register.

However, while the authentication process was slow, the card reader was very fast in verifying the voters cards.

Accreditation for the exercise, which held in 24 polling units in Unuhu Ward 10, started by 8:00 am and rounded up by 1:00 pm.

Addressing journalists, the Ebonyi state Resident Electoral Commissioner for INEC, Dr. Lawrence Azubuike, who acknowledged that the authentication process was slow, noted that all the challenges encountered in the exercise would be addressed before the general elections.

Nasarawa

In Nasarawa, the inability of card readers to verify the finger print of voters occured as many voters who turned out for the exercise complained of delay in the capturing of their fingers print by machine.

At Garaku Primary School polling unit, out of the 10 registered voters accredited, four people were successfully captured but it took about 15 minutes for the card reader to capture the finger prints of the accredited voters after several attempts.

The situation was similar at Otutu primary school, Fegen Angwa, Agwan Gimba, Agwan Takwa, Kurmi

Shinkafa and Kubere and Kofar Magaji Alade and Agaba polling units. In an interview with our correspondent, some of the voters, Mr.

Dangoje Mohammed, Gaya Umar Rico and John Dangana, who suffered delay in capturing their fingers by the card readers, protested the several minutes they spent during their accreditation exercise.

INEC’s reaction

Reacting to the reported performance of the card readers, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, said the outcome of Saturday’s test-run exercise of the voting devices was satisfactory.

“What we have seen in the test-run of the card readers is not out of the ordinary. The so-called hitches observed were things the INEC chairman had already highlighted. The report that the devices recorded low success is not correct. In Lagos alone, we recorded 90 per cent success in the test-run. We can assure all Nigerians that INEC is ready to deploy the card readers for the general elections. We are absolutely confident of the device,” Idowu told SUNDAY PUNCH.

http://www.punchng.com/news/inec-card-readers-pass-mock-exam/

nb:pls I had to use another thread space to post as I cudnt post a new one

correct vice president

SIR: It was the late Nkemba of Nnewi, the late Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, an icon in the annals of Nigerian history, who asserted boldly in the condolence register, after the death of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, that – “He was the best President Nigeria never had.” But these are strange times in political campaign and media advertisement. Ethical considerations and African values matter little when economic gains steer media people in the face.

Or how can you explain a recent advertisement in some of our print media by the ruling political party that “General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB) humiliated late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, and he is now using his in-law as a spare tyre”. For me whoever is elected to the position of Vice President, is elected to do the job of a president, when the latter is overloaded with state duties or is absent. To suggest in a hate-suffused advert that the position of vice presidential candidate is like what a spare tyre is to a car, is terrible.

From my encounter with Professor Yemi Osinbajo, at the Legal Research and Resource Development Centre I have no doubt in my mind that the south-west has put forward one of their brightest. Coupled with this is the fact that he is integrity personified. These two qualities in one person as the number two man in a country with leadership problem is great. We must always remember that “ integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”. Prof, as we fondly refer to him taught some of us “the mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.”

When we do not vote people who can re-invent decency in our body polity into government, where lies our hope as a nation. Decency here does not have to suggest the mere veneer of morality, the suppression of conscience. It can instead mean the rigorous search for the fitting and appropriate right response to the situations in which we find ourselves. To be “decent” is not passive, or hypocritical, or mediocre, or callous. It is instead to find the response commensurate with the needs of the moment. Those needs are many and various. Some moment call for respect some for humours, others call for outcry or restraint or the call to collective action. All of these responses can be decent. The trick is to know which is required and when.

Indecency is the harm caused by the wrong responses at the right moment. Obedience, when resistance is called for, is indecent. So is the lavish excess of outrage, when constructive action would be more fruitful. Indecency is mockery when empathy is needed, violence when restraint is fitting, silence when outspokenness is required, self-righteousness when humility is called for.

General Muhammadu Buhari (GMB), is compatible with Professor Yemi Oshinbajo, in the political will to fight corruption. I believe that if these two can tackle corruption, head on, the country will be on the part to glory.

•Olusola Akinbode, Lagos.





- See more at: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial-opinion/letters/200682-osinbajo-a-quality-vp-nigeria-must-not-miss#sthash.tmoWitv3.dpuf
- See more at: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/editorial-opinion/letters/200682-osinbajo-a-quality-vp-nigeria-must-not-miss#sthash.tmoWitv3.dpuf

yet the money spent to buy the aloku ones is more than the price of new modern ones.

clowns.

pdp is really daft...............lagos has been in existence for over 100 years ,now a man of 60+ years is claimed to own most of the landed properties in lagos.pdp are you this daft.

jonathan is corruption and cluelessness walking

Mayor21:
Thats my president till 2019

2019-4=

[quote
author=dipo1234 post=31397132]I was there am i participated throughout i
got my 5,000 cash, some got more than that, i just went to see for
myself and to witness the kind of deceit our so called leaders are
perpetuating it is a pity[/quote]this is a lie by this paid pdp agent.look at his earlier posts and you know this is another fabrication.

pdp is really a clueless party.
there were massive crowds on the roads and in the stadium which pdp is obviously unhappy about.

they quickly organised 160 people with oga jonny walker and oga madam in Abuja for photo shoot saying they too dey march
no originality or innovation, a bunch of clueless looters.

if anyone has been bribing, it has been pdp and oga jonny walker and still, Nigerians want CHANGE.

durosegun:
I find it difficult throwing jabs at elders but when I see the likes of Pa Fasheun and co among the elders, I quickly put on my gloves. The opinions hold by these so called 'self appraised' Yoruba elders clearly do not represent the opinions of the entire Yoruba nation. In history, the Yoruba people have never been known to be anybody's stooge even though we cherish and respect the opinions of our elders. In this volatile period, I believe it will be wise if these people can just let us be and make our own decisions.
They also acknowledge that this administration has failed, the only reason why they claimed to be supporting this administration is the hope that report of the national confab will be implemented, and this is not even a certainty.

bros, did you say opinion of entire Yoruba nation.

for where, even they can not speak for their family, not to mention street.

I bet you a lot of them are not even regarded in their ward.clowns

hmmmmmmmmmmm

steppin:
Dul!ard! I said "most" not all.
Dumb APC fans!

then it should be Zimbabwe and south Africa that are the gay people too.


jokers like the clueless boss.

tswitch:
The joke is on you if you cannot comprehend and make comparisons between:
1. a strong /sound president
AND
2. a frail/demented person



See who is laughing now?

Cluelessly moronic!

you are laughing abi crying about your super clueless oga............take handkerchief.

steppin:
Most of the leaders have one thing in common, they're pro-gay/gays! They support gays/gays marriages, so why do you think they won't hate GEJ who is anti-gay?
They should keep hating, Goodluck will still rule Nigeria for the next four years!

jokers, so, russia morocco and china people too be gay

that is a leader

hmmmmmmmmmm

DEMENTIA is an ailment of the old and it was not surprising when First Lady Patience Jonathan, at a campaign rally in Lokoja last Tuesday, warned Nigerians about the prospects for Nigeria if an old man like Maj-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is elected president.

“Wetin him dey find again? Him dey drag with him pikin mate. Old man wey no get brain, him brain don die pata pata,” Mrs. Jonathan was quoted as telling enthusiastic supporters of her husband before doling out rice, meat and brocades in thankful appreciation of the women.

The assertion remarkably did not go down well with the Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation which in response urged President Goodluck Jonathan to warn his wife for taking the campaign away from the issues of concern to Nigerians.

Alleged degradation

If President Jonathan cautioned his wife on the matter, no one can for now say. Buhari has himself not personally responded, neither had his wife, Mrs. Aisha Buhari spoken out on the alleged degradation of her husband’s mental faculties.

Irrespective of Mrs. Jonathan’s delivery, the issue of Buhari’s age and mental alertness is a matter for any one wishing to lead a country of more than 170 million people.

It is thus not surprising that Buhari’s handlers and associates are prompt to assure the citizenry of the mental alertness of the candidate.

“If you watched or listened to the Chatham House lecture, you will not condone anything of that sort that the PDP people are saying of him. Especially the question and answer session where he interspersed his answers with humour,” an associate of the general told Vanguard.

“He is someone that listens a lot and would wait until the end of a discussion before giving a response. He is very diplomatic and tactful, and when he speaks, he is very deliberate in his choice of words as you saw with him at Chatham House,” the associate, a member of the APC’s Presidential Campaign Council said.

General Buhari has also sought to reach out to voters in other ways, moving out from his closest as a taciturn, conservative that only associates with fellow Fulanis.

Remarkably, the general has been almost reticent on responding to insinuations of him being a religious fanatic, only saying that he had more Christian associates than Muslim in the army.

Gen. Sam Momah (retd.), a Christian who worked as Principal Staff Officer when Buhari was General Officer Commanding, GOC, of one of the army’s divisions said: “if anybody is trying to input that Buhari is a religious bigot, just know that the person is playing naked politics, far from the truth.”

The Chatham House lecture was only one opportunity for Buhari to show the world that he is not the kind of person that his political adversaries have sought to project.

In a number of other ways, the candidate has also rebranded including in his dressing and political strategies.

Several dimensions of the new look Buhari, it was gathered were worked out by Governor Chibuke Amaechi, the Director-General of his campaign organisation. Indeed, the appointment of Amaechi was the first indication of Buhari’s determination to branch out from the stereotype he had been used to.

Northern eggheads

In the past, his campaign had been managed by a few northern eggheads within The Buhari Organisation, TBO, who were seen at that time as being narrow minded and only preoccupied with projecting Buhari as a champion of the north.

Unlike in past campaigns, when he only donned the Hausa-Fulani attire in his campaign outreaches to some other parts of the country and when he did not even visit many areas, this time, Buhari has worn different attires to reflect the custom and attire of everywhere he went.

That, coupled with the challenges of the incumbent president, have helped to blossom support for Buhari in distant places.

From the South-East through the South-South and to the South-West, support for Buhari has skyrocketed to the point that he has become a potent threat to the PDP’s Jonathan in a number of southern states.

In the Southeast, a number of dissidents within the PDP are believed to be covertly or openly working for Buhari including a son of a foremost crusader of Nigeria’s independence.

Aisha Buhari
Aisha Buhari

Buhari’s associates say he is also not that dry and humourless person. A member of his campaign team disclosed how one occasion as the campaign bus travelled through the night bushes in Delta State, some campaign officials decided to loosen up and framed a song: “we no go tire…we no go tire. Until we win, we no go tire..”

As they sang, Buhari who all the while kept mum, received a phone call and all of a sudden everyone kept quiet. Once he was finished with his call, he now bellowed unto the singers, “Now you can continue with your noise,” the official said and everyone burst out into laughter.

“He has a sense of humour which you will not get until you come close to him,” the campaign official told Vanguard.

Mr. Uche Ofearoh, who served as Anambra State Coordinator for the Buhari Campaign Organisation, BCO, prior to the presidential primaries spoke in the same manner.

According to him, the general had been widely misconceived, but he expressed satisfaction that a number of the misconceptions have been widely seen to be ill-founded.

But even as he crusades for change of the Jonathan administration, Buhari campaign insiders say he remains stuck in his old conservative ways of handling relations especially exposing his family to campaign. Though his daughters, Halima Sherrif and Safina Buhari, represented him at a Valentine Night outing themed for his political campaign, the candidate remains stuck in the culture of keeping one’s wife and family out of the limelight.

It is one argument that Mrs. Jonathan sees as a threat to her personal crusade to project Nigerian women as she had in the past warned that Buhari could cancel the office of first lady.

After Mrs. Jonathan’s dig on Buhari’s brain, there was pressure from his sympathisers for Aisha to respond. Those who suggested this were motivated by the fact that Aisha is regarded as a better speaker than Mrs. Jonathan and would as such rubbish her. But few dared to personally bring up the matter with the general.

“We know what it took for him to allow his wife come out at campaign rallies, and I am not prepared for that again,” a source within the Buhari circle confided. So even while he may have branched out in terms of political pattern, Buhari remains dogged-in in his cultural upbringing.




- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/now-buharis-brain-is-bracing-up/#sthash.ts2qPgpt.dpuf

the Yoruba pdp speaking for OPC not the real Yoruba people.

heard even peter obi is even part of this fake and so called Yoruba.

clowns.....................

Sai Buhari

The list of political stakeholders in Nigeria supporting the presidential aspiration of General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) yesterday increased following the decision by the National Councilors’ Forum of Nigeria, an umbrella organization of all the councilors in Nigeria to formally adopt him. The councilors who met in Uyo, the Akwa-Ibom State capital to decide which of the presidential candidates they should support could however not substantiate on their choice of Buhari as some of the national executive members were not present at the meeting causing the meeting to be rescheduled for next week. National Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Christopher Edemekong while speaking with the Saturday Vanguard on the issue, confirmed that the executive members of the forum would meet next week in Abuja to take a decision on the presidential candidate the councilors in the country would support. Giving an insight into the expected outcome of the meeting, Edemekong said “members of the Forum from the 8,812 political wards in the 774 local government areas of the country want to be actively involved in the political process that will usher in the next dispensation by taking a decision before the presidential election” stressing that the councilors would not sit on the fence at this critical moment in Nigeria’s history. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/forum-of-councilors-in-nigeria-set-to-adopt-buhari/#sthash.75bLOua1.dpuf