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It is Over !!!

Despite the warning by relevant agencies, APC and their supporters have resorted to increase their propagandist tendency by flaunting the warning just for political gain. Knowing the implications of peddling falsehood ahead of the announcement of results by the INEC, we are pleasing with the agent of Change to desist from acts that could threaten law and order.

Please be aware that INEC is the only authorise body to announce or release elections results.

As media practitioners and consultants, we used to do one thing while analysing national issues: who is commenting and who is not. What are they saying, what are they not. The aim is to see if an issue initially presented as a national one is actually an ethnic agenda. It is in this context that I have been doing an analysis of the Buhari presidential challenge and I asked: WHERE ARE NORTHERN VOICES? It has been a 'research' I have been doing since January till this year. Granted that Buhari campaigned in the North and pulled massive crowds but where are Northern opinion leaders? On mainstream and social media, the vehemence of the Buhari push is being spear- headed by Yorubas! In all his official engagements, within and outside the country, check the pictures: you wont find a Northerner behind him. The odd men out apart from South- westerners are John Oyegun and Rotimi Amaechi. Yet you see Tinubu, Fashola, Fayemi, Amosun, Lai Mohammed, Mamora and co. I may be proved wrong, but only once have I seen Tambuwal in photo with Buhari! Kwankwaso has quietly withdrawn himself! Atiku hardly talks even when his boy runs Buhari's media organ of the campaign. Wammako, Shettima, el-Rufai don't talk. While Obasanjo is talking every day, Babangida, Abdusalami, Ciroma, Coomasie, Lawal Kaita hardly say anything. Is there something going on? I spoke with a Northern senior friend of mine from Sokoto State who used to head a federal government electronic media arm on why the North is not giving the general the media and moral support required, here are his words: "We want power to return to the North but it seems you Yorubas have a hidden agenda with the way your people are pushing Buhari and turning it into a Yoruba crusade." I prodded him further but he politely declined to say more. I continued this 'research' on Facebook. Whenever someone posts a pro- Buhari or anti-GEJ material, I also usually do a demographic analysis of 'likes' and comments and again, I discovered that it is mostly 75-80% Yoruba thing. Even the Remove-Jega- don't-remove-Jega campaign is PURELY a South-west 'headache'. If you doubt, do your own media survey. Does it mean the feelers are true that most Northern leaders are uncomfortable with the way Tinubu has 'approximated' the change 'struggle'? Are they aware of any agenda some of us are not? I asked these questions because no matter the noise we are making here, high-wire, high stake politicking is going on at the highest level. Good day!!!

TRADELYN:
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That's why people like us no fashion abroad to avoid lack of concentration

First and foremost, before i comment, please is she a guy or a babe?

Grievancies, Jealousy and Politics, even family members could be bought over. Na wa ooh

na wa oh ,,, Jobless Naija and election wahala!

was passing by, meanwhile who knows the latest price of pomo?

So Bleep what? we are waitng for the divorce news on E!

the influence of excessive Telemudus, Africa magic and Bollywood

Frustration and Nemesis is catching up with OBJ and it's so obvious. If he couldn't control late Yar adua and GEJ, is it GMB that he feel will listen to him? he will soon be shown the way out of politics if he like he should incite another coup. either GEJ or GMB, nobody will have his time again.

APC has been consistent in saying that PDP has ruled nigeria for 16 disastrous years in which corruption, impunity, insurgency, armed robbery and several ills of society held sway. But at a very close look at the APC, I am seeing
1. Rotimi Amaechi - 8 years Speaker, 7 years Governor under PDP
2. Atiku Abubakar - 8 years vice president under PDP
3. George Akume - 8 years Governor under PDP
4. Bukola Saraki- 8 years Governor, 2 years senator under PDP
5. Timipre Sylva - 4 years Governor under PDP
6. Audu Ogbeh - 2 year chairman of the PDP
7. Aminu Masari - 4 years Speaker house of rep under PDP
8. Chris Ngige - 3 years Governor under PDP
9. Rabiu Kwankwaso - 7 years Governor, 3 years minister of defence under PDP
10. El-rufai - 4 years FCT Minister, 2 years BPE chairman under PDP
11. And to cap it all.....Obasanjo is the navigator of APC, a man who spent 8 of the disastrous 16 years as the maximum ruler of Nigeria.
It is now clearer that APC is a waste basket of the PDP, where the people who created and perpetrated the 16 disastrous years are now dumped. So where is the change going to come from? Are they now saints because they joined APC?

A question that I have been seeking a suitable Answer.

Report reaching us revealed Hon. Dino melaye,a self acclaimed Human right campaigner was involved in a fatal accident with his N27million car due to recklessness. The victim of the accident who is a retired para-military officer was injured with his car badly damage, a developement which must have fuelled Dino escape from the accident scene living the helpless and trumatic family man to his fate. Further effort to get dino proved abortive as he allegedly bribed the Policemen that were in search of Him.
Meanwhile, the case is under Brekete Family a popular live radio/tv magazine program, as their intervention might bring the needed Justice.
Dino Melaye who is alleged to be a Human right activist, seeking to contest for Senate under the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) is the kind of character that has continued to generate doubt over the real identity/objectives of the set of politicians in the Progressive Forum.
Please well meaning Nigerians should rally behind Brekete Family to ensure that justice is serves without fear or favour in this one among numerous hidden crimes of the self acclaimed human right activist who is riding N27m car with a lot of poor people in Kogi state.

MUHAMMADU BUHAR: Running for president with an anti-corruption bank loan! One thing is for sure: Muhammadu Buhari would like to be the next president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has tried three times and has failed every time. Finally realizing it is a lost cause, he said he would not try again. But now he is persuaded to try again. His supporters are impressed that he won 12 million votes against Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. However, they need to be reminded that he lost to Jonathan by over 10 million votes.
Since the third time did not turn out to be a charm for Buhari, what are we to call his fourth attempt? Listening to the declaration of his new-fangled presidential bid in Eagles’ Square, Abuja a few days ago, it is seems this fourth time is going to be one big charade.
The sign was provided by none other than Buhari himself. Since his one credential is that he is a man of integrity who, as president, is expected to wrestle corruption down to the ground, Buhari decided to burnish his anti-corruption image by revealing that he obtained his 27.5 million naira APC nomination form with a bank loan. However, what this declaration did was to tell Nigerians that Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption crusader. His Mr. Clean posture is nothing but a public relations gimmick.
Question marks!
In fairness, some of us have known this all along. Under Buhari’s watch as Petroleum Minister in the late 1970s, $2.8 billion (worth billions of naira today) was missing from the NNPC account. The matter was subject to Senate investigation under the chairmanship of Olusola Saraki in 1983. But before the report could be dealt with, Buhari conveniently overthrew the Shagari government in a military coup d’état.
Vera Ifudu, an NTA newscaster, revealed that Saraki told her in an interview that the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at Midland Bank in London. For this disclosure, Vera was summarily sacked by the NTA. However, she appealed against her dismissal in court and won. She even received a handsome financial compensation for wrongful dismissal from the NTA. Instead of clearing his name as a man of integrity, Buhari refused to appear before the Oputa Panel set up to look into the matter (among under things) by the Obasanjo administration.
Buhari claims to be an anti-corruption crusader, nevertheless, he agreed to serve under Sani Abacha, one of the most corrupt Heads-of-State ever in the history of Nigeria. While there has been no proven allegation that Buhari corruptly enriched himself as Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund under Abacha, it is abundantly clear that this fabled anti-corruption crusader failed to curb the rampant corruption that prevailed in the organization. Group Captain Usman Jibrin, a board member of PTF, resigned from the organization in protest over Buhari’s irregular appointments of consultants.
In 2000, the Obasanjo administration set up an Interim Management Committee to look into the affairs of the PTF, under the chairmanship of Haroun Adamu. The Committee discovered that billions of naira was stolen under Buhari’s chairmanship.
Political platform!
Now the same Buhari who would not or could not curb corruption in the PTF wants us to believe he will fight corruption as president of Nigeria. However, he has chosen the APC as the political platform on which to undertake this. But the APC is an unscrupulous political party that is choc-full of corrupt politicians. It is the party of Murtala Nyako who was impeached as governor of Adamawa State for converting state money to personal use. It is the party where Buhari himself and others went cap-in-hand to Otta to beg Obasanjo to be their “navigator.”
Surely Buhari knows that he cannot fight corruption by being the presidential candidate of the APC. Whatever anti-corruption crusading Buhari had in him in the past must have ended when he decided to join the APC. Should he become president, does he intend to probe his corrupt party-members? Has he made them understand he would be coming after them once elected? If he has, does he really expect them to help him get elected so he can retrieve their stolen loot and send them off to jail?
A 72 year-old man with Buhari’s experience, who was overthrown in a preemptive coup by members of his own government, knows that in Nigeria, nobody gets elected as president on the platform that he is going to be an anti-corruption crusader when he gets into office. That is a sure signal for all the politicians in all the parties to gang up against him and make sure he never makes it.
If you really want to be anti-corruption, you have to keep your mouth shut about your plans until you get elected and then catch your corrupt colleagues by surprise. You must also have resolved not to seek re-election for a second-term. It is not only the populace, but the politicians in particular, who insist on “stomach infrastructure.” But if you are talking anti-corruption while still seeking the nomination of your party, it must be because it is well known to your corrupt colleagues that your anti-corruption stance is merely for public consumption.
Cleaning up APC
It is not surprising, therefore, that despite all the noise about anti-corruption coming from Buhari and his cohorts; he has failed to fight against corruption in the APC. We did not hear him raise a voice against the incongruity of a so-called progressive party demanding a cynical nomination fee of 27.5 million naira for its presidential primaries. One would have expected a truly anti-corruption crusader to make the point that the nomination fee is unacceptable. Instead, Buhari readily acquiesced to the requirement in order to safeguard his all-important presidential ambitions.
Since Buhari cannot, or does not, fight against this corrupting nomination fee in the APC, and insist on its reduction to something far more reasonable, how can he expect us to believe that as president in a political system with the separation of powers; against a legislature likely to be controlled by the PDP; he would be able to fight corruption? Somebody is fooling somebody here. Or else, somebody is living in a cloud cuckoo land.
Charity, they say, begins at home. If Buhari is truly anti-corruption, he should begin his crusade in the APC. Is it progressive for a political party in Nigeria to ask its candidates to come up with 27.5 million just for the nomination papers for an election where only one person will emerge as the winner? Is it not corrupt politicians that are likely to have this type of easy-come easy-go money? Is this not an open invitation for the winner, if he actually manages to secure election to the presidency, to recoup this extortionate fee from public funds?
Anti-corruption bank loan
What did anti-corruption Buhari do about this outrageous APC requirement? This is where the whole matter becomes ridiculously implausible. According to Buhari, rather than fight against the measure, he took out a ban loan to pay for it.
Buhari told us about his “loan” out of embarrassment; in a pathetic bid to validate his anti-corruption credentials. But this so-called loan indicates that Buhari does not understand what it means to be anti-corruption. For Buhari, anti-corruption is a posture; it is a swagger; it is a badge; but it has no bite and, in the usual Nigerian fashion, it will be prosecuted with hypocrisy.
Buhari wants us to believe that he cannot afford 27.5 million naira. Nevertheless, he rides around in a bullet-proof Jeep and maintains a convoy of Land Cruisers. He cannot afford 27.5 million naira. Nevertheless, he declared his candidacy lavishly in Eagle Square, Abuja. Did he also take out a bank loan for that? Four months to a make-or-break election, Buhari would have us believe he has no money. How does he propose to finance his presidential campaign? Is he going to take 1 billion naira loan from the World Bank for this?
Dubious loan
Why would a bank lend Buhari that amount for a presidential pie-in-the-sky that failed to materialize three times in the past? Is that not likely to be a bad loan? How long did it take for the loan to be processed? What did he put down as anti-corruption collateral? How does he propose to pay the money back? Mr. Integrity needs to spell all this out for the sake of his fast-disintegrating anti-corruption credentials.
I did not know loans are so easy to secure in Nigerian banks today. Perhaps Buhari could introduce me to his bank manager. I would also not mind taking this kind of soft loan. I am sure I can always come up with some unproductive excuse or the other for it. Is such a loan even legal today under Nigeria’s stricter banking laws?
How many honest Nigerians can afford to give a non-refundable 27.5 million naira to a political party, on the off-chance that they will be able to secure the party’s presidential ticket? If they win the nomination and even get elected president, how would they pay back the money?
Not presidential material
It is clear that Buhari is not only lacking the money to pay for APC nomination papers, he does not have the funds to pay for advisers, to counsel him about what to tell the public and how to prosecute an effective presidential campaign. His advisers might have educated him that there is something called “fund-raising.” Surely, the most popular politician in the North-West can find some of his ardent supporters to give him 27 million naira. Certainly, a former governor of the Central Bank can easily cough up the money.
Buhari wants to fight an election that will take place in four months time. From what he tells us, he does not have 27 million to prosecute that election now. If this is true, he is not the right man to be president of Nigeria. For a man who is running for election for the fourth time, that is the height of cluelessness. It shows Buhari is lousy at marshaling resources. Otherwise, he is fooling nobody but himself.

Please someone help explain to the fool called Kayode gundamisi that the third guy in that pic isn't Mohammed Yusuf but Rex Ekiugbo.
I wonder what these APC goose/boko haram sympathisers would not do to destroy the country.

We all know that Kayode Ogundamisi is a well known insider in Boko Haram activities and we know he's being sponsored by some people in Opposition just to undermine the Government and Nigeria for political gain.
The same Ogundamisi was the brain behind the recent publication that GEJ name was included and he was among those that quickly release the latest Boko Haram video to further propagate their evil tendencies against Nigeria, the same Ogundamisi was among the group that have been peddling the following falsehood; boko haram kidnapped 20 Fulani women, Boko haram installed new Emir in gworza, Boko Haram kidnapped 200 young men in chibok and Boko haram turn Mobile Police base to training ground. Now I ask how could a Man who claim to be a Nigerian engages in such malicious propaganda against his own country?
Then I realized the guy called Kayode Ogundamisi is not a Nigerian but his parent illegally migrated into Nigeria from Benin republic through one of those illegal routes around in the western part of the country.

KAYODE OGUNDAMISI, recently posts photo of Asari and Rex Ekiugbo Anighoro during one of the PEACE MEETINGS to end the NIGER DELTA MILITANCY (with Pastor Ayo in Warri) and captions REX EKIUGBO (Asari's comrade) as Yusuf Muhammed, the late vanquished Boko Haram original leader who was extra-judicially killed during Late Yar Adua's tenure as president.
It will be recalled that efforts made to end the Niger Delta militancy in 2007 cut across all sections of society. Traditional rulers, Elders, Religious leaders and even the then Vice President, now president Goodluck Jonathan went to the dreaded camps of the no-nonsense agitators for resource control, to get them to sheathe their swords.
In a futile attempt to tie Pastor Ayo to Boko Haram (just because the NSA's representatives leased a jet he put up for commercial purposes, for a trip to South Africa to purchase arms to fight Boko Haram), Ogundamisi goofed without knowing the identity of REX ANIGHORO.
This desperation to turn truth to a 360 degree lie comes just 48 hours after a bogus foreign media posted President Jonathan's worth as 6th richest African president, and was removed in 24 hours after the president threatened legal action.
It remains to be seen, what next these bearers of cock and bull stories will post next to launder their tacit support for Boko Haram through reverse campaigns of calumny.
God bless Nigeria.
NOTE: The NSA Sambo Dasuki has claimed responsibility for the Arms deal and said they are legitimate.
The South African Authorities also released the jet in question to the leasing company in 24 hours

It seems more revelations are comig forth since Australian negotiator, Dr. Stephen Davies accused some prominent Nigerians of funding the terror group Boko Haram.

The Australian had accused  former Borno Governor, Modu Sheriff and the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika as Boko Haram sponsors.

Well a new name has been added to the suspect funders list, and that is Borno State Governor, Kashim Shettima.

This piece of information was made available through a report by Magazine, “Power Steering,” it said Governor Shettima is behind the killing of late Alhaji Awana Ngala, former ANPP chairman in Borno State and Engr. Modu Fannami Gubio, the gubernatorial candidate of the ANPP.

It is said that Engr. Modu Fannami Gubio was expected to succeed Modu Sheriff in the 2011 general election but was killed one week before his appointment.

Power Steeering reveals that they had a secret conversation with one Mustapha Kolo, who is a detained Boko Haram member.

Kolo goes on to reveal to the publication that there exists a relationship between the sect and the Borno State governor right from his time as a commissioner.

Kolo went further and added that Shettima himself has been funding the sect and even had meetings with Boko Haram leaders to discuss further assasination of some prominent Borno citizens and politicians, who did not share his own political ideas.


In Kolo’s words:“When he (Shettima) was Commissioner, he used to give us plenty money.

He even gave us money to kill Fannami Gubio, so he can become governor, but he did not complete his payment; we were following him, he didn’t give us again”. He said.

 

Boko Haram has been a troublesome disease in Nigeria’s Northeast since 2009.

They have bombed schools and places of worship and killed over 5000 Nigerian including kidnappings also.

Australian Negotiator, Mr Davies had made news recently when he revealed he managed to talk to the sect leaders and found out who funded them.




http://www.naij.com/288767-shettima-used-us-become-governor-boko-haram.html?new_letter

What do u expect from a jobless white fool who is being paid by some politicians in Nigeria to say? even my JSS two boy read the story and smile with so much disbelief in his face.


Falsehood of the Highest order why has he bot directed his allegations to the FG,, Nigeria Politic is worst than cancer of the breast.

Just ran through some of the statement made by our own very people oriented good governance apostle, Mallam Nasir El-rufai in the past:

Abuja is not for poor people - Nasir El-Rufai 2006.

I only got N5bn contract from CBN governor - El-Rufai

If I don't allocate FCT lands to my friends will I allocate it to my enemies." - Nasir el Rufai to the Senate Committee 2009.

If your monthly salary is below N100 000, leave Abuja because u don't deserve to be there".- Mallam Nasir El-rufai, FCT Minister - Addressing low Income Nigerians living in Abuja in 2004.

And today the same El-rufai is a true democrat and progressive,,"GodSaveNigeria"

he know that is what the media wants to hear so they can sell their lies to the people

I wonder why Abuja is suddenly turning into Sodom and Gomorrah, with prostitution becoming the fastest growing business in the city. You hardly during the day as they have all become nocturnal animal only seen in large quantities at night,, why?

With Boko Haram, we know where Satan is already, so please say another thing bro

Unconfirmed story wihout source name aim @ causing fear and panic among the populace God help us with this kind of media insurgency. Read the press release by the joint task force on Ebola virus disea.
Please is time for us to propagate the necessary measures to prevent the escalation of the disease than spread fear.

it is called Grass root appeal, GOD help us.......

delicious I know you all will love this

Not surprise the clown is talking, very soon he will come out to say he's been dating her, cause he has penchant for peoples wife. FFK please before you go further blabbing can you tell Nigerians about the missing MONEY and all the corruption plus anarchy that took place during OBJ's Government which you were a key player in it they say he who goes for equity must do that with clean hands....

Was with a friends at Maitama over the weekend, while discussing, issue let to issue and we finally arrived at the issue of accident and how the Nigerian police treat some accident cases, especially the cases that involved rich folks or politicians. Then finally one of the guys made mentioned of a police man (name withheld) at Utako police station,once disclosed to him how one of El-rufai son went to club n got himself drunk, while driving back home he had an accident which got the other person fatally injured and when the case was brought to the Utako police station, his father (Mallam El-rufai) bought off the case with a reasonable amount of money and the people on duty all went home smiling.
Then i begin to wonder where are we heading to in this country, if Nigerians can go as far as treating very critical issue that involved human life shallowly for financial gain then we need a divine intervention in this country.

1. President Jonathan is the first democratically elected president to give Nigerians FREE AND FAIR elections. Till date, no political leader, not even governors in the opposition states, have marched this record.

2. Transparent privatisation of PHCN

3. Construction of model Almajiri schools throughout the north.

4. Rehabilitation and Restoration of the old railway system.

5. Construction of brand new standard railway system. The Abuja-Kaduna standard railway for instance is over 70% completed.

6. Reconstruction of 22 Airports across the country

7. Construction of 5 brand new International Airport terminals

8. Elimination of CORRUPTION in the fertilizer distribution system through the use of electronic wallet system.

9. Rice self-sufficiency policy

10. Sugar master plan currently being implemented.

11. New automative policy

12. Creation of 12 new universities. 9 of these are in the north.

13. YOUWIN programme

14. Construction of River Ports in Onitsha, Lokoja,etc

15. Dredging of the River Niger

16. Completion of Vom-Manchok road in Plateau State.

17. Completion of Yola-Numan road in Adamawa State.

18. Completion of Gombe Bye-pass road in Gombe State.

19. Completion of Kaduna Refinery road in Kaduna State.

20. Completion of Kano-Daura-MaiAdua road in Katsina State

21. Completion of Uba-Mbalala road in Borno State.

22. Completion of Funtua-Gusau-Sokoto road (from Gusau to Talata Mafara)

23. Completion of work on Obiozara-Uburu-Ishiagu road in Enugu and Ebonyi States.

24. Completion of work on Abakaliki-Mbok (Ogoja Junction) road in Ebonyi and Cross-River States.

25. Completion of work on Owerri-Aba Road in Imo and Abia States.

26. Completion of work on Okpala-Igwurita road in Imo State.

27. Completion and commissioning of the crucial second 330KV Onitsha-Benin transmission line.

28. Completion of 1×7.5MVA power injection sub station each in Orafite and Amichi in Anambra states

29. Completion of 2×2.5MVA Eke distribution injection sub station in Enugu.

30. Completion of 7.5MVA power distribution injection substation in Trade fair area of Enugu.

32. Completion of 7.5MVA power injection sub station in New Heaven, Enugu state.

33. Rehabilitation and reopening of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depot at Aba, Abia State. The depot was closed for over 6 years
Watch out for more soon....

This is joblessness bro(Cramejones), if na so them dey pursue pple El-rufai n his likes 4 don die stay stay.........

An average fallacy

if anybody is surprise about this, I am not cause from the onset I've always known that nothing good will come out from a character like El-rufai, let wait and see as his past progressive looting will continue to unfold.