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stebell:
Jimmy is too old to be governor of Lagos but Buhari in not too old abi........Fashola, deceiving gullible APC rodents since 2007.


Vote GEJ.
Vote Transformation and continuity.

haha stop been dumb now, don't type according to here say.
its not fashola dat said so.
and if you still doubt dat
get a link to d rally video

Wittylens:
Where is the source Link? because its obvious this writeup was copied from somewhere

this your sauce,source and saws

http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=3893

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FIFTH PARAGRAPH: With the Enugu airport now handling
international flights, more of our people can fly directly
to their localities resulting in reduced pressure on our
roads.

THIRD PARAGRAPH: While we will surely mark this
holiday in our different ways and according to our
established traditions, it is my desire that we all
celebrate Christmas with some minimum comforts and
my team and I have long prepared for this by working to
improve our infrastructure especially those that most
serve us during this season.




Note: This paragraph, like all other paragraphs in the
speech, contains at least four errors. I don’t need to
mention them here, except to point out the most bizarre
of the errors. That has to do with the phrase: “it is my
desire that we all celebrate Christmas with some
minimum comfort...” What does the President mean to
say here? Is he urging Nigerians to show restraint in
their consumption during the period, which might make
sense, or does he really mean that Nigerians should be
minimally comfortable during the period? (If Nigerians
don’t have electricity during the period, yes, that would
be “minimum comfort” for them). It is totally bizarre for
such ambiguity and confusion to emanate from a simple
statement of goodwill from the President of Nigeria. I
will not bother to list the errors in the remaining
paragraphs. Those are even too disturbing for anyone to
bother to point them out. It is easier to point out the
correct statements here than to point out the errors
because only about five sentences in the entire speech
are correct grammatically and otherwise. And most of
the factual assertions in the speech are false and most
statements of opinion in it are illogical.

SECOND PARAGRAPH : Christmas is a time of joyous
family gatherings and as President, I see every Nigerian
as a member of my family and I urge us all to retain the
unique sense of brotherly love that this season evokes
beyond the Yuletide period



Note: (1) This paragraph is mostly meaningless. The
President’s attempt to define Christmas only as “a time
for joyous family gatherings” does not reflect an
intelligible articulation of the purpose of Christmas. In
fact, religious scholars do not believe that the central
connotation of Christmas involves family gatherings, as
there is no such religious obligation for families to
gather. Of course, he could have avoided this ambiguity
by indicating that this is his own understanding of the
meaning of Christmas. (2) Also the use of the definite
article “a” before “time” does not reflect the best
practice. (3) Similarly, there ought to be the definite
article “the” before the word “President” in that
paragraph. (4) The most disturbing error in the second
paragraph of the speech has to do with the last seven
words in that paragraph, “this season evokes beyond
the Yuletide period”. The problems here are: (a) What is
the “season” mentioned here? That is Christmas season.
(b) What is the “Yuletide period” mentioned here? That is
Christmas period. So, that statement really says
something like this: “This Christmas season evokes
beyond the Christmas period”. You can see immediately
the dumbness of such statement. It is a lazy statement
by a lazy writer. And, by the way, what is the meaning of
the word “Yuletide”? It is defined by Wikipedia as: “Yule
or Yuletide (“Yule time”) is a Pagan religious festival
observed by the historical Germanic peoples, later being
absorbed into and equated with the Christian festival of
Christmas.” The English Dictionary defined it as “Archaic
way of saying “Christmas””. Now why would this writer
use such term, really?

my attention was drawn to President Jonathan’s
goodwill message to Nigerians on Christmas. Having
read many speeches from the President of Nigeria, I am
always certain that there would be grammatical and
other kinds of errors in his speeches. Indeed, I have
stopped bothering about it. But when I read his present
speech, I had to comment, initially for the benefit of my
friends.
The responses to my comment promoted me to further
analyze that speech. (Before you go further, remember
that anybody can make a mistake. It is a matter of
degree; but the office of the President of Nigeria should
not make the same type of mistake that an individual like
me could make). The funny thing is that I am actually
familiar with how the presidency works or should work.
There are layers of personnel to ensure that anything
coming from the President, directly in his name, reflects
the best the country is capable of. That is supposed to
be the general state of affair and everybody in the
presidency understands and works towards that. The
office of the President would therefore have the best
secretaries and other support staff working in a structure
where they are positioned to detect errors and correct
them before the matter gets out.
For instance, it is a serious problem to submit a
document to the President for his signature, where such
a document has an error in it. We refer to documents
signed by the President as documents that are
watertight and perfect. They leave no room for typos or
other problems. That is why a document bearing directly
the name of the President would go through several
checks and reviews before publication.
Note that this was not a speech delivered on behalf of
the President by an aide. It is not a thing by a press rep.
It is not a thing by his advisers. It is directly in the name
of the President. So, efforts should have been expended
to ensure that it met the highest standards. If they were
not sure of that standard or they lack the time and
resources to ensure the highest standards, they could
have had the speech given on behalf of the President by
some other official.
What I think happened was that they allowed a low
grade, low talent (but highly paid) connected political
player’s relative to man the President’s Facebook
account. They forgot that even though it was Facebook,
that was the President directly communicating with the
world.
Some people naively think that this is just about
grammatical error. They are satisfied that he even
bothered to greet them on Christmas. But, rather, this
matter reflects failure at several levels. It is failure to
understand the use and significance of the social media
in modern governance. It is failure to understand the
people and the audience the President is trying to reach.
It is a failure to select the right officials based on
competence rather than political patronage. It is simply a
huge failure to lead the country with any sense of
modernity.
A few days ago, President Putin of Russia had a meet-
the-press session attended by 3,000 press people. Putin
communicated with the world with the latest and best
technology that exists. He communicated like a pro. But
here, the President of the most populous black nation in
the world where 65% of the population comprises of
people under age 30 could not even send a simple
message on Facebook without so many basic errors.
Now, I used this simple issue to test Nigerians. I wanted
to see how many of the youth would understand what is
in issue here. Many do not understand that if you don’t
speak any language of your choice in the correct
grammatical format, that would cause you to say the
opposite of what you meant to say. Now, may we
examine in some specific details the statement by the
President of Nigeria, as follows: (I placed my comments
as Notes after the first four paragraphs).

imsuboi:
What do you expect from the daughter of an illiterate? It even flows in their blood

ode na dat single mistake you dey open smelling mouth on.
ve you heard your GEJ speaks without paper ?
its an awful thing

FP for where
you can even be ban for this self.
Holatin come and saw what I ve sawing

berem:
what are they saying about Buhari?

just some old video of buhari military rule, some publish paper, some soldier weeping peoples, 3 guys in firing squad and what some oyinbo write about d dikko saga

omenka:
Not within reach of a personal tv at the moment. What are they saying??

showing old videos, newspaper shot, what one yeye oyinbo print inside paper when oledikko was almost smuggled.

akinladejo:
I can't laugh ooooooooooo and u no go kill person

I can't kill you am no pdp

SeverusSnape:
Truth is bitter, But must be told. All those Omenka, Barca, caseless and Berem you're calling know it's the truth. I ask, Are they lies

try and defend anything that is right there then I will teach you its not right

SeverusSnape:
They are saying the truth.

truth or trying to change people mind by painting and daunting buhari image.
GEJ is really desperate.

omenka,berem,ceaseless,barcanista

someone should tune into AIT, to see how PDP dey badmouth buhari

searay:
Yes, because I'm yet to collect my PVC

you miss road bajebaje

Akpan107:
You are dreaming my dear.

Buhari will never rule Nigeria.

We have rejected him trice, we will do it again.

ow many we
Nigeria are tired of misrule,incompetence and stagnancy

habmayor1:
Lol!!! You mean!!! ooo

na fact oooo
his surname is incompetence

Trut:
He should first of all give the 1 million jobs (catttle rearing job) to Almajiris, they need it most

Imagine someone who is not useful to himself and his community since he retired is promising Igbos 1 million jobs? Buhari try another lie, dis wan not work.

really??
do you know the people that doesn't want GEJ as president then ?
his people !
you know why ?
a failure is a failure no matter how packaged it is

mifavour:
whatever shaaa. GEJ2015

for where

even if he assemble all pastor, Alfa and traditional leaders

his defeat is sure as death.

buhari has come to cure Nigeria of incompetence(goodluck)

barcanista:
The woman is a she-devil! People are just wicked. She should be charged for attempted murder.

But OP that Bobbi doesn't look like the bobbi of a 12years old kid, the bobbi don mature. I may be wrong though

so you no bobby by their look.
you be case study oo

really

DeviIhimself:
Nope i prefer playing with your pucccy if you're really a woman

Thunder fire your ancestors there
Hopless bastard vagabond
Useless nonentity
Otu nne i

go to literature section, your brain capacity is not enough for political discussion.
hediot

this is like saying PEJ will give a press conference without throwing vocal bomb.

buhari will trash GEJ bumbum like there is no tomorrow

DeviIhimself:
Thunder fire your ancestors there
Buhari will fail and after that he will be hit by stroke
Because Buhari is a terrorist
Apc Is bokoharam
Tinubu is a bastard
Osibanjo is a vagabond
Gej till 2019

see this kiddo, done talking to a clueless drunkard dat can't see c what's right to wrong.
go and play with your toy

drehdinho:
I will like to add one or two things to complement your opinion...
fear God sincerely. Learning handful of the societies' etiquettes and putting them to practice where necessary would positively delineate you're a well brought-up lady to him and his affined family members. But please do all these with the sincerity of the heart; don't pretend. Because if you do ,it will back-fire someday.
I wish all our single ladies and men good luck.

thank you

anti9JA:
here is the link for all you Christians supporting Buhari to counter: FANATIC BUHARI DEFENDER UNABLE TO COUNTER THESE ARGUEMENTS ON FACEBOOK!! READ IT

go to hell lady, stop spreading trash and causing division between tribe and religion.
if I see this trash again, you doing like what I will write about you on this site.
don't destroy Nigeria because of your greediness for money

DeviIhimself:
Lagos behold your new governor

Time to be free from
Tinubu the bastard
Buhari the illiterate terrorist

pls can you go to the hell of oyedepo because we don't need d devil here