₦airaland Forum

RoyalRoy: What's bad about saying the truth as it is?

All the posters before you said the bitter truth. Should we be parting our leaders on the back when they are seriously messing up?

Is that how you live your life? Licking other people's asss so as not to hurt their feelings ?

Be a man and stand for the truth always no matter how difficult and hard it is. That is what defines a man!!


Shalom.

wheesin: first lemme laugh at the post on top of my head secondly saharareporters cooked up this story

moneybag100: Hmmmm

san316: So if militarisation is the panacea to electoral fraud, what happens in 2015. How many soldiers will gej hav to deploy to each state? PS: i agree that the military presence was a deterrence against electoral thuggery.

Justcash: See APC O. LMao. So, they feel that if GEJ wants to "OBASANJORIZE" them, that they will breath? Are you kidding me? See speech o! This governor no even recognize the reforms in INEC. In want GEJ to return MAURICE "KOLANUT" IWU as INEC CHAIRMAN?
These guys need to encourage GEJ to continue the political change that he is instilling. Our forefathers said that the fact that a tall man bowed to a dwarf does not mean that he has become a dwarf. These guys should not make GEJ ANGRY O! Hia!

toluk: .When they win, Its free and fair, when they loose, Its rigging..Bunch of propagandist..

born2lead01: AUGUST 10,2014
ELECTORAL VICTORY SPEECH BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OSUN, HIS EXCELLENCY, RAUF AREGBESOLA
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY OVER THE TYRANNY OF POWER

After an unnecessarily tense, tortuous and even traumatic process, the Independent National Electoral Commission this morning declared me as the winner of the Osun state governorship election on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC). On behalf of my party, we are delighted to claim victory for our hard work, focus and dedication in this election. I thank the Almighty God for our triumph at the polls, against all odds.

To the good people of State of State goes our unflinching gratitude. We salute your steadfastness, courage, loyalty, commitment and fierce determination to defend your sovereign rights and the integrity of our nascent democracy. You have demonstrated in this election that in a democracy, power truly belongs to the people. I am humbled and honoured by your trust and abiding faith in me and my party. I pledge that your confidence in us shall never be betrayed or taken for granted.

Ordinarily, this should be a moment of joy and celebration consequent upon the hard earned triumph of the people’s will. However, this election shows that democracy is still gravely endangered in Nigeria. We witnessed gross abuse of power and, of due process before, during, and even after the actual voting process. It is so sad and unfortunate that what should be a normal, routine process was maliciously allowed to snowball in to a needless virtual war by the Federal Government and the PDP.

The State of Osun was unduly militarized in an unprecedented manner through criminal intimidation and psychological assault on our people. This election witnessed an abuse of our security agencies and amounted to a corruption of their professional ethics and integrity.
The security agencies were unprofessionally utilized in Osun state to harass, intimidate and oppress the people whose taxes are used to pay their salaries and provide their arms. Hundreds of leaders, supporters, sympathizers and agents of our party were arrested and detained. Also, hundreds of other innocent citizens including women and the aged were harassed, brutalized and traumatized. In spite of this condemnable repression and abuse of human rights, the unflagging spirit of our people triumphed.

Our victory is due to the steadfastness and resolute determination of our people to assert and defend their rights. The PDP obviously did all it could in a most desperate manner to steal the people’s mandate. A critical analysis of the elections shows a trend of general low voter turnout largely because of the atmosphere of deliberate tyranny and fear caused by the excessive militarization of the state. Despite our victory, it is pertinent to condemn and also point out the fact that the number of accredited voters in most local governments was less than half of registered voters. Against this trend, it is curious that the bulk of the PDP candidate’s votes came from only four Local Governments- namely Ife Central, Ife East, Ife North and Ife South. This suggests an inexplicable large turnout in his stronghold which is a curious departure from the general trend of voting across the state.

The outcome of this election, once again, shows the unswerving determination of our people to ensure that democracy triumphs in Nigeria. We have sent a strong signal to all and sundry that no might is powerful enough to thwart the will of the people. This should always strengthen our resolve to ensure that as from now on, every vote must not only be counted but must count in this country. Nobody or party must ever exercise power unreasonably at any level except in accordance with the will of the people to whom sovereignty belongs.

Let me assure the good people of Osun state that I appreciate that this victory is a reward for our hard work and commitment to the welfare of our people. I promise that we shall not rest on our oars but shall be spurred to work even harder with all well meaning people of the State of Osun and the generality of Nigerians to continue to enjoy your trust and support. You can be assured that we will leave no stone unturned in our continued effort to transform Osun into a land of progress, prosperity and peace for all with renewed fervour. I realize that this victory and the challenges we went through is a call to greater service and sustained commitment to our people. I pledge a rededication of myself to the service of our people and the strengthening of democratic values in Osun and Nigeria generally. Our country remains in political bondage and we must set her free.

Nonybb: You People are now confusing Nigerians about this Ebola thing. MMA is far from Victoria Island, and how could such virus got there so soon? Any sickness that kills people are now Ebola, be it Tuberculosis, cancer, Skin rashes, name it. Assuming Patrick Sawyer wasnt in Nigeria until Today, and this corpse arrived some few hours ago, could you had said it was Ebola. Ebola is the most misconstrued disease now. What killed that man might not be Ebola but some other sickness, and even the cloths put on by those that took him with that van isnt enough prove. I was around when Tuberculosis was ravaging people. That one got solved medically. Malaria used to kill People until Artemeter-Lumefetrin came in to remedy the scourge. HIV was killing too until it was tamed and I survived and never got infected. Today people give Testimonies in churches for Missing Ebola to HIV. I shall survive this Ebola thing too.

bushdoc9919: And the fallout from the un-remmitted money scandal begins.

Hope Jonathan acts like Hercules and clears out the Augean stable that is the NNPC.

philips70: How did this fool and his posts survive a minute on Nairaland talk less of 24 hours? The MODS only know how to ban political activists on here? MODS wake up from your slumber.

Brandomg: You prefer a southern arne like you?

MzMariah: I can beat my chest to say there is no good block standing in that barrack. I went visiting when I met people packing, I was so touched and I decided to open this thread. I stayed for some days before I left, I went round the whole barrack, the roads gan no be here. what about Pedro barrack that a block also fell last month? abeg make we no reason am.

MzMariah: Firstly I'm not a guy. secondly the barrack is as bad as it looks, I was not told, I saw it myself. thirdly, I opened this thread because of the falling block I saw and that's the picture I posted. if you feel its not a barrack then no shakes. I mentioned the name of the said barrack in my post, maybe you should read of well.

Enjoy the rest of your day tbara.

BinghiNya: From the comments here we can Ơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡.̮Ơ̴͡ that christianity Ȋ̝̊̅§ evil and its adherents ungodly, God said though shall not kill, when soldiers kill unharmed people what does that connote, bring our girls protests were even done outside nigeria, the way you stiff necked fools reason Ȋ̝̊̅§ why nigeria Ȋ̝̊̅§ moribund as a nation.

zendy: A lot of people make ignorant comments on Nairaland. I was born after the war and so was not a living witness to it but that did not stop me from reading books and researching about it. I also got first hand accounts about the war from my mother who was a refugee in camp similar to the one in these pictures and my father who was a captain in the Biafran army. I know all about the war. The important question to ask is "why was the war fought?" The counter-coup of 1966 saw northern officers rise and butcher any Eastern Nigerian officer or soldier they could lay their hands on but that didn't stop there. Easterners were butchered across the north and western region. Ojukwu was then military Governor of Eastern Nigeria. Ojukwu told Gowon to stop the killings but he didn't. Ojukwu even encouraged the Easterners who ran back home to return to the north only for them to be killed in greater numbers. Ojukwu sat down with Gowon in Aburi,Ghana and discussed the escalating crises and they came up with an agreement called the 'Aburi Accord' that would bring peace and keep Nigeria as one. Gowon signed this agreement only to return to Lagos and turn his back on it. With easterners being massacred in their thousands all over Nigeria,what would anyone expect Ojukwu to do? He did what he could to bring peace but it didn't work. How many of you would have stood by and watched your own being killed in the name of 'one Nigeria'? Ojukwu did the only thing any sane man would have done to protect his people after all peace initiatives by him had failed and that was to ask his people to return home and declared Biafra. Biafra was about the right of a people to self determination,freedom of association and the right to protect ones life and property. If any of us had been Ojukwu,we too would have declared Biafra. The war followed and the only reason that Nigeria defeated Biafra was the overwhelming support it got from super powers such as Britain and Russia. I want to add that it was the God given right of anyone or a people to decide if they want to be Nigerians or not,you can't force someone to be Nigerian. The war was fought for one single reason. For the oil resources of Eastern Nigeria. That's all it was, the northerners need the economic resources of the people of the South-east and South-south like fish needs water. Anyone who believes that the northerners and their Yoruba collaborators fought this war because of the 'everlasting love' they have for the Igbos and the people of the SS is a fool. 2 million people died,millions more suffered and for what? To give northerners and Yorubas control over the rest of Nigeria for 40 years. Look at the Nigeria they presided over,a country riddled with corruption,incompetence,porverty and insecurity. This is the so called dream of 'one Nigeria'? I pray that there will not be another war in Nigeria but we all know that Nigeria is living on 'borrowed time'. We will all go our different ways in peace or in pieces.

Smartsyn: Some men adviced Gowon to close the Cameroonian borders so as to prevent food and other relief materials from entering the Biafran territory and eventually many women and children were starved to death.

God ll forever punish those men, even in their death..

Symphony007: When asked if he thinks nigeria should be independent, this is what Ahmadu bello, the then most powerful man in the north and leader of the NPC had to say.

"Self government for nigeria could only be demanded when it's meaning was fully understood by the masses of the country with things in their present state in nigeria. The northern region does not intent to accept an INVITATION TO SUCIDE"

This is how low he thought of nigeria and our ability to govern ourselves, yet upon independence he and his party dominated a government thy never believed in. He and his party were british stooges. No wonder he and tafawa balewa were british "knights" while azikiwe and awolowo were'nt. I saw this quote recently and it really disturbed me and gave me a glimpse of the genesis of nigeria's problems.

Randy100: Lets us all call shekau and beg him for forgiveness befor he finish us all

size38: Asari Dokubo should know better. After all, he is a muslim and a Jihadist himself. If he doesn't know the reasons, he should ask his fellow Jihadist in the North to ascertain the reasons for Buhari's attack.

DankemzI: What was Buhari doing behind the Islamic leader? Must he travel behind the man? This thing na set up. Ubok Abasi

Anasko: nothing will happen. the problem is that if the bomb blast take place in south city of kd the christians there will start maiming people.may God hav mercy on Nigerians

banito1: please anyone in kd should let me know how this would affect the peace in kd because I am currently on my way to zaria from abj and will be passing through kd very soon. Thanks

berbs113: Abeg! Dem hire dis people ni jor..... Arrangeeeeeeeee

size38: Politics aside, GEJ is simply an embarrassment to mankind.

tbaba1234: SubhanAllah, in Nigeria, we have at least 50% Muslims and there are people who do not even know the basics of Islam. We do not live by Islam or convey its tenets, We have left dawah to boko haram and their likes.

Too many are not even confident enough to express themselves. We need Islam, Islam does not need us. We better wake up to our responsibilities or Allah will replace us with people better than us.

You who believe, if any of you go back on your faith, God will soon replace you with people He loves and who love Him, ..... (Surah 5:54)

alaoeri: May Allah increase you in knowledge for this short piece, on the issue of not knowing the real teaching of Islam by most muslims who are we to blame? Me as a case study I knew little to nothing regarding Islamic teachings not until my undergraduate days where I encounter the real Islam. Me think is the environment we fond ourselves & also poverty isn't helping matters.

McLuhan: Sometimes you ask yourself, what is it about Nigeria that bestialises people, that brings out the animal in them? Every now and then you find perfectly sensible people who behave impeccably when they are outside Nigeria's shores but who inexplicably succumb to the Nigerian craze immediately they return home. Is there an atmospheric spirit that lurks in the Nigerian airspace and possesses people like some incubus immediately they alight from their aircraft or breathe the Nigerian air? Or is it attributable to a genetic dysfunction in our DNA?

mcocolok: CHAI MAKE I GO COLLECT MY OWN

ohzee: What's the point of keeping in touch? Is it just to show that you have self control or what? It's not about whether you are faithful or not. it's about removing EVERY seed of doubt in your partner's mind. If you run into your ex, you can be polite and courteous, but to actively keep in touch with him or her is selfish and totally unnecessary in my humble opinion.

Idrismusty97: Why didn't you see this; You should be ashamed of your miserable life. Isn't it normal for residents in that state to speculate? Are you looking for likes or what?! Even residents in Osun are doubting the bomb blast. We are humans for God sake! Are you waiting for news to tell you what really happen? Why didn't they report about lagos bomb blast? You sound like someone who doesn't reside in the North. Since you are the God of knowledge why didn't you posted this right away! Why do you have to wait until the news reporters have gather information and that so called image of yours from the same residents of that state? Gosh You are so pathetic!

Idrismusty97: I am in Kaduna o and i haven't heard anything, The atmosphere is very calm. I dont even know where this Asikolaye/Bakin Ruwa area is self.

Alabsworld: Bloody liers.......We r in kaduna nd there is no gun shot in kaduna talk less of bomb explosion

Akson man: Is Sahara Reporters part of Boko Haram's intelligence unit?

They reported the Maiduguri bomb attack barely minutes after it occured.

Now they quickly reported another one in Kaduna. However, many Kaduna residents are saying there was no bomb blast.

Is it possible that Sahara Reporters had advanced knowledge of a plan to bomb that part of Kaduna? But unfortunately,maybe something went wrong with the detonation schedule, but Sahara Reporters jumped the gun and went ahead to report a bomb blast with ficticious casualties.

SR must be investigated.

Timijo: I live in Kaduna, close to Bakin ruwa but I didn't hear any bomb blast. In fact, am watching ball now in my house. I don't know where this saharareporters got their news.

talk2riel: This story is not true just confirmed from a reliable source.

If you care to know asikolaiye is dominated by yorubas if it was true then imagine the tribe that would have lost loved ones.


In another news there was a bomb placed opposite queen amina college, in kaduna south yesterday. If it had gone off maybe it would have signal the beginning of the threaded civil war [southern kaduna boys dey vex] BH beware!

airclipse: I live in kd ...n I haven't heard anything.

walex25: I don't think this is true, I live very close to Askolaye and everything is very calm here.

johnel2real: Same here! I live in kaduna, have not heard anything too. This news is not even on any national daily.